different between joust vs doust

English

Alternative forms

• just (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French jouster (modern French jouter), from Vulgar Latin *juxt?, *iuxt?, *iuxt?re, from Latin i?xta (“close to”). English since the early 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?a?st/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /d???st/
  • Rhymes: -a?st
• (also) IPA^(key): /d?u?st/
  • Homophone: juiced
  • Rhymes: -u?st
• (also) IPA^(key): /d??st/
  • Homophone: just
  • Rhymes: -?st

Noun

joust (plural jousts)

1. A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.

Synonyms

• tilt

Translations

Verb

joust (third-person singular simple present jousts, present participle jousting, simple past and past participle jousted)

1. To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
2. To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally)
3. (slang) To touch penises while engaging in a sex act, especially oral sex.

Derived terms

• jouster

Translations

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