different between dout vs aout

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English doute (“doubt”). More at doubt.

Noun

dout

1. Obsolete spelling of doubt

Etymology 2

Blend of do +? out, from Middle English don ut (“do out”). Compare don, doff, dup.

Verb

dout (third-person singular simple present douts, present participle douting, simple past and past participle douted)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.

Related terms

• douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German t?t, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Cognate with German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Icelandic dauður.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deu?t/, [d???t]
• Rhymes: -??t
• Homophone: Doud

Adjective

dout (masculine douden, neuter dout, comparative méi dout, superlative am doutsten)

1. dead

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• Doud
• doutlaachen
• doutmaachen
• doutschloen
• douttrëppelen

English

Preposition

aout

1. (rare) Eye dialect spelling of out.
   • 1895, Harry Jones, Fifty Years: Or, Dead Leaves and Living Seeds, page 144

     ... and aout he come rasher nor iver, knockin' here and knockin' there, tell you couldn't hardly sleep for he.

   • 1919, Thomas Burke, Out and about London, page 115

     Git aout, else I'll split yer faice !

   • 1936, H.P. Lovecraft, "Shadow over Innsmouth":

     Ye see, they was able to live both in ant aout o' water–what they call amphibians, I guess.

Anagrams

• Auto, Auto., auto, auto-, auto., outa

French

Noun

aout m (plural aouts)

1. Post-1990 spelling of août.

Further reading

• “aout” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).