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Soot vs Doot - What's the difference?

soot | doot |

As verbs the difference between soot and doot

is that soot is to cover or dress with soot while doot is (chiefly|scotland) doubt.

As a noun soot

is fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

soot

English

(wikipedia soot)

Noun

(-)
  • Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.

    • Synonyms

    * lampblack

    See also

    * carbon black

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or dress with soot.
    • to soot land
    (Mortimer)

    Anagrams

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    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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