doit
See also: do it
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle Low German doyt, cognate with Middle Dutch duit. Doublet of thwaite.
Noun
doit (plural doits)
- (historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
- c. 1606, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 12:
- most monster-like, be shown / For poor'st diminutives, for doits;
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- '"You got a lot of gold off Mr. Beauclerc," says Glascock.
'"Not a doit more than I wanted," says he, laughing again. "And who, pray, had a better right—did not I murder him?"
- c. 1606, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 12:
- (archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.
- 1819, — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- “Speak out, ye Saxon dogs — what bid ye for your worthless lives? — How say you, you of Rotherwood?” “Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- When / they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they / will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
- 1819, — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
- (music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
- 1995, Music & Computers (volume 1, issues 2-4, page 57)
- Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.
- 1995, Music & Computers (volume 1, issues 2-4, page 57)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Scots doit, apparently a Scots cognate of dote.
Verb
doit (third-person singular simple present doits, present participle doiting, simple past and past participle doited)
- (Scotland, rare) To stumble; to blunder.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
- I trembled with astonishment; and on my return from the small window went doiting in amongst the weaver's looms, tillI entangled myself, and could not get out again without working great deray amongst the coarse linen threads that stood in warp from one end of the apartment unto the other.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
French
Pronunciation
Verb
doit
- third-person singular present indicative of devoir: must, has to
- Il doit aller en France un jour.
- He must go to France one day.
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
doit oblique singular, m (oblique plural doiz or doitz, nominative singular doiz or doitz, nominative plural doit)
- finger (appendage)
Descendants
Welsh
Alternative forms
- delet (colloquial)
- deuit (literary)
- deuet (literary)
- doet (colloquial)
Pronunciation
Verb
doit
Mutation
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