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Dotage vs Portage - What's the difference?

dotage | portage |

As nouns the difference between dotage and portage

is that dotage is decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility while portage is an act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.

As a verb portage is

(nautical) to carry a boat overland.

dotage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.
  • * 1841 , , The Old Curiosity Shop , ch. 1,
    • "More care!" said the old man. . . . There were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.
  • Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree.
  • * 1598 , , Much Ado About Nothing , act 2, sc. 3,
    • CLAUDIO: And she is exceeding wise.
    DON PEDRO: In every thing but in loving Benedick. . . . I would she had bestowed this dotage on me.
  • foolish utterance; drivel
    • The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. — Milton.

    Synonyms

    * (loss of mental acuity associated with aging) second childhood

    Anagrams

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    portage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of carrying, especially the carrying of a boat overland between two waterways.
  • The route used for such carrying.
  • A charge made for carrying something.
    • (Bishop Fell)
  • Carrying capacity; tonnage.
    • (Hakluyt)
  • The wages paid to a sailor when in port, or for a voyage.
  • A porthole.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Verb

    (portag)
  • (nautical) To carry a boat overland

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