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Verb[edit]
doat (third-person singular simple present doats, present participle doating, simple past and past participle doated)
- Obsolete spelling of dote
- 1676, Aphra Behn, “The Town-Fop”, in The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III[1]:
- Ye all doat upon him, but he's not the Man you take him for.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- I took any means to get access to you. O speak to me, Sophia! comfort my bleeding heart. Sure no one ever loved, ever doated like me.
- 1786, Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in Spring”, in Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns[2]:
- --And maun I still on Menie doat, And bear the scorn that's in her e'e?
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 346:
- “Is not she looking well?” said he, turning his eyes towards Jane. “Better than she ever used to do?—You see how my father and Mrs. Weston doat upon her.”
- 1825, William Hazlitt, “Mr. Coleridge”, in The Spirit of the Age […] , London: Printed for Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
- We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements[sic].
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French doigt (“finger”) (with modified pronunciation : fr: [dwa] > vo: [doˈat]).
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Noun[edit]
doat (nominative plural doats)
Declension[edit]
declension of doat
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