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Dotting vs Doating - What's the difference?

dotting | doating |

As verbs the difference between dotting and doating

is that dotting is while doating is (obsolete) ; doting.

As a noun dotting

is a dotted pattern; a speckling.

dotting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dotted pattern; a speckling.
  • * 2011 , Claire Messud, The Emperor's Children (page 19)
    • There was little to be done about the stubborn dottings of mold on the basement wall (she blamed the aluminum siding, after all these years, which kept the house from breathing) or in a patch on the blue bathroom lino behind the toilet.

    doating

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) ; doting
  • * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88
    • "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.