different between doust vs dost

English

Noun

doust (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, West Country) Dust.

Verb

doust (third-person singular simple present dousts, present participle dousting, simple past and past participle dousted)

1. (obsolete, West Country) To extinguish, to destroy, to kill.
   • Anonymous (1831) The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend?^[1]:

     [...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed forty thousand per year" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever -- (Much tumult, and cries of "shame" and "doust the liars")

   • Fussel, E.F. (1867) Medical Times and Gazette, page 420: “"[...] I wished the above system of drainage to be carried out, but I met with this response from an official, in many matters a man entitled to the greatest consideration:- "I found that sort of thing at a house the other day, and I soon dousted it."”
   • Havergal, Francis Tebbs (1887) Herefordshire words & phrases, colloquial and archaic, about 1300 in number, current in the county: “"Him hit Jack on his head, it nearly dousted him."”
   • Clynton, Richard (1889) The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer: “Look at me, mates! The glim of one of my skylights is dousted, and is battened down for ever.”
2. (obsolete, West Country) To dust.
3. (obsolete, mining, chiefly Cornwall) To separate dust from ore.
   • Lock, Charles George Warnford (1895) Economic mining: a practical handbook for the miner, the metallurgist and the merchant: “The ore is first cobbed and classed into (a) prile, (b) best dredge, and (c) crusher dredge; a is finished product; c is crushed, jigged, and huddled; b is dousted, or, after reducing in rolls to 8-mesh, dry-sifted in fine mesh hand sieves.”

Anagrams

• USDOT, douts

Middle English

Noun

doust (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of dust

English

Etymology

From do +? -st.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?st/
• Homophone: dust
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

dost

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of do

Usage notes

Doth and dost are generally used as auxiliary verbs; doeth and doest are generally used as main verbs.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:dost.

Related terms

Anagrams

• DOTs, DTOs, TODs, dots, stod, stød, tods

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian ????? (dôst).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dost]

Noun

dost (definite accusative dostu, plural dostlar)

1. friend

   Synonym: r?fiq

Declension

Derived terms

• dostluq (“friendship”)
• dost-tan?? (“friends and acquaintances”)

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Persian ?????.

Noun

dost

1. friend

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dost/

Adverb

dost

1. enough
2. pretty, rather

Further reading

• dost in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• dost in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Persian ????? (dôst).

Noun

dost ?

1. friend

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Clipping of dosta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dôst/

Adverb

dost (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (colloquial) enough, sufficiently
2. (colloquial) lots of, plenty of
3. (colloquial) rather, quite (+ adjective or adverb)

Synonyms

• dosta

Turkish

Etymology

From Persian ????? (dust).

Noun

dost (definite accusative dostu, plural dostlar)

1. friend (often, arkada? is used instead of dost)

   Synonym: (informal) kanka

2. paramour; an illicit male or female lover

   Synonyms: (a female paramour) metres, (slang) zamazingo

Declension

Antonyms

• dü?man

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• arkada?

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?st/

Adjective

dost

1. Soft mutation of tost.

Mutation

Zazaki

Etymology

From Persian ????? (dôst).

Noun

dost ?

1. friend

   Synonyms: olboz, ombaz