Dout vs Doat - What's the difference?
dout | doat |
(transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
* {{quote-book, year=1676, author=Aphra Behn, title=The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III, chapter=The Town-Fop, edition=
, passage=Ye all doat upon him, but he's not the Man you take him for. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Robert Burns, title=Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns, chapter=Song, Composed in Spring, edition=
, passage=--And maun I still on Menie doat , And bear the scorn that's in her e'e? }}
* {{quote-book, year=1825, author=William Hazlitt, title=The Spirit of the Age, chapter=, edition=
, passage=We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements. }}
As verbs the difference between dout and doat
is that dout is to put out; quench; extinguish; douse while doat is obsolete spelling of lang=en.As a noun dout
is obsolete spelling of lang=en.dout
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(head)Etymology 2
.Verb
(en verb)- The fire she lit was fanned rather than douted . ? Snowden.
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