different between dolt vs dope

English

Etymology

First used as a noun in Early Modern English, from dialectal English dold (“stupid, confused”), from Middle English dold, a variant of dulled, dult (“dulled”), past participle of dullen, dollen (“to make dull, make stupid”), from dull, dul, dwal (“stupid”). More at dull.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?lt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??lt/, /d??lt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /do?lt/
• Rhymes: -??lt

Noun

dolt (plural dolts)

1. (derogatory) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
   • c. 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, The Moor of Venice

     O gull! O dolt! As ignorant as dirt!

   • 1627, Michael Drayton, Nimphidia, the Court of Faery

     This Puck seemes but a dreaming dolt.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fool

Derived terms

• doltery
• doltish

Translations

Verb

dolt (third-person singular simple present dolts, present participle dolting, simple past and past participle dolted)

1. (obsolete) To behave foolishly.

Anagrams

• told

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?lt/
• Rhymes: -?lt

Verb

dolt

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of dollen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of dollen

Manx

Verb

dolt (verbal noun doltey, past participle doltit)

1. to adopt, foster, initiate

Synonyms

• (to foster): doltaghey

Swedish

Adjective

dolt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of dold.

Verb

dolt

1. supine of dölja.

English

Etymology

From Dutch doop (“thick dipping sauce”), from Dutch dopen (“to dip”), from Middle Dutch dopen, from Old Dutch *d?pen, from Frankish *daupijan, from Proto-Germanic *daupijan?.

Sense “narcotic drug” originally from viscous opium pastes, “insider information” perhaps from knowing which horse had been doped in a race. Related to English dip and German taufen.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [d??p]
• (US) IPA^(key): [do?p]
• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

dope (countable and uncountable, plural dopes)

1. (uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
2. (uncountable) An absorbent material used to hold a liquid.
3. (uncountable, aeronautics) Any varnish used to coat a part, such as an airplane wing or a hot-air balloon in order to waterproof, strengthen, etc.
4. (uncountable, slang) Any illicit or narcotic drug that produces euphoria or satisfies an addiction; particularly heroin. [from late 19th c.]
5. (uncountable, slang) Information, usually from an inside source, originally in horse racing and other sports. [from early 20th c.]

   Synonym: scoop
6. (uncountable, fireams) Ballistic data on previously fired rounds, used to calculate the required hold over a target.
7. (countable, slang) A stupid person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fool
8. (US, Ohio) Dessert topping.

Derived terms

• dope fiend
• dope house
• dope man
• dope sheet
• dope slap/dope-slap
• dope story
• dopeless

Translations

Verb

dope (third-person singular simple present dopes, present participle doping, simple past and past participle doped)

1. (transitive, slang) To affect with drugs.

   Synonym: administer
2. (transitive) To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.).
3. (transitive, electronics) To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon).
4. (intransitive, now chiefly sports) To use drugs; especially, to use prohibited performance-enhancing drugs in sporting competitions.
5. (slang, transitive, dated) To judge or guess; to predict the result of.

Derived terms

• dope up

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

dope (comparative doper, superlative dopest)

1. (slang) Amazing.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:awesome

Translations

References

Anagrams

• deop, depo, op-ed, oped, p.o.'ed, p.o.ed, pedo, pedo-, pode, poed

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [do?p?]

Verb

dope

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dopen

French

Etymology

From English dope

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?p/

Noun

dope f (plural dopes)

1. (informal) illicit drug, narcotic

Verb

dope

1. first-person singular present indicative of doper
2. third-person singular present indicative of doper
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of doper
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of doper
5. second-person singular imperative of doper

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?do?.p?]

Verb

dope

1. inflection of dopen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Ido

Etymology

From dop +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do.pe/

Adverb

dope

1. back, behind, aback

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dope/, [?d?o.pe]

Verb

dope

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dopar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dopar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dopar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dopar.