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Dout vs Doot - What's the difference?

dout | doot |

As verbs the difference between dout and doot

is that dout is (transitive|dialectal|or|obsolete) to put out; quench; extinguish; douse while doot is (chiefly|scotland) doubt.

As a noun dout

is .

dout

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
    • The fire she lit was fanned rather than douted . ? Snowden.
    Related terms
    * douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke. ----

    doot

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) doubt
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Mair'd be a bother; an' I doot not ye'll mak' it all richt, lad." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1917, author=John Hay Beith, title=All In It: K(1) Carries On, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=No doot he'll try to pass himself off as an officer, for to get better quarters!" }}
  • (chiefly, Scotland) think
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=James C. Welsh, title=The Underworld, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="I think my pipe's on the mantelshelf," returned Geordie, "but I doot it's empty." }}

    Anagrams

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