different between boating vs doating

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bo?t??/, [?bo?????]
  • Homophone: boding

Noun

boating (countable and uncountable, plural boatings)

1. The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.
   • 1953, Pennsylvania Angler (volumes 22-23, page 61)

     With the old boatmen holding annual re-unions at Rolling Green Park, tales and exciting moments of boatings and fishing in the old canal are told and re-told among veteran boatmen.

2. (historical) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

Translations

Verb

boating

1. present participle of boat

English

Verb

doating

1. (obsolete) present participle of doat; doting
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88

     "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.

Noun

doating (plural doatings)

1. Obsolete form of doting.
   • 1865, The Sunday Magazine (page 98)

     […] infinite love, and grace, and condescension, and fatherly yearnings, and conjugal doatings […]

Anagrams

• antidog, antigod, gonatid, toading