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Douit vs Doust - What's the difference?

douit | doust |

As nouns the difference between douit and doust

is that douit is (guernsey) a stream or brook while doust is (obsolete|west country) dust.

As a verb doust is

(obsolete|west country) to extinguish, to destroy, to kill.

douit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Guernsey) A stream or brook.
  • * 1965 , (John Christopher), A Wrinkle in the Skin :
    • He crossed the douit and forced his way into the thicket.
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 129:
    • He said, ‘Didn't you know that every douit and every hedge and every inch and square inch of land on Guernsey is weighed and measured, and has been for centuries?’
  • * 1989 , (Stephen Birnbaum), Birnbaum's Great Britain 1990 :
    • Visitors can stroll down to the beach along wooded paths beside streams known as "douits ."
  • * 2011 , ‘Blondel turns on the style’, The Guernsey Press , 20 May 2011:
    • The pair were virtually inseparable over the front nine until Eggo’s second shot on the ninth dived into the douit short of the green not to be seen again.
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    doust

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete, West Country) Dust.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, West Country) To extinguish, to destroy, to kill.
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  • (obsolete, West Country) To dust.
  • (obsolete, mining, chiefly, Cornish) To separate dust from ore.
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