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doit
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??t/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle Low German doyt, cognate with Middle Dutch duit. Doublet of thwaite.
Noun
doit (plural doits)
- (historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
- c. 1606, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 12:
- most monster-like, be shown / For poor'st diminutives, for doits;
- c. 1606, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 12:
- (archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.
- 1819, — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- “Speak out, ye Saxon dogs — what bid ye for your worthless lives? — How say you, you of Rotherwood?” “Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- When / they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they / will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
- 1819, — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- (music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
- 1995, Music & Computers (volume 1, issues 2-4, page 57)
- Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.
- 1995, Music & Computers (volume 1, issues 2-4, page 57)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Scots doit, apparently a Scots cognate of dote.
Verb
doit (third-person singular simple present doits, present participle doiting, simple past and past participle doited)
- (Scotland, rare) To stumble; to blunder.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- I trembled with astonishment; and on my return from the small window went doiting in amongst the weaver's looms, tillI entangled myself, and could not get out again without working great deray amongst the coarse linen threads that stood in warp from one end of the apartment unto the other.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dwa/
- Homophones: doigt, doigts, dois, doua, douas, douât
Verb
doit
- third-person singular present indicative of devoir: must, has to
Old French
Alternative forms
- dei
- deit
- doi
Etymology
From Latin digitus.
Noun
doit m (oblique plural doiz or doitz, nominative singular doiz or doitz, nominative plural doit)
- finger (appendage)
Descendants
- Angevin: daigt
- Lorrain: dogt
- Middle French: doigt
- French: doigt
- Haitian Creole: dwèt
- French: doigt
- Norman: deigt, dé
- Picard: doét
- Walloon: doet
Welsh
Alternative forms
- delet (colloquial)
- deuit (literary)
- deuet (literary)
- doet (colloquial)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?i?t/
Verb
doit
- (literary) second-person singular imperfect/conditional of dod
Mutation
doit From the web:
coit
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??t/
Etymology 1
See quoit.
Noun
coit (plural coits)
- Obsolete form of quoit.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)
Verb
coit (third-person singular simple present coits, present participle coiting, simple past and past participle coited)
- (obsolete, transitive) To throw.
- to coit a stone
Etymology 2
Back-formation from coitus.
Noun
coit
- Synonym of coition
Verb
coit (third-person singular simple present coits, present participle coiting, simple past and past participle coited)
- (rare) to copulate; to mate
Synonyms
- coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Anagrams
- -otic, Tico, Toci, otic
Latin
Verb
coit
- third-person singular present active indicative of coe?
Romanian
Etymology
From French coït
Noun
coit n (plural coituri)
- sexual intercourse
Declension
coit From the web:
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