dout
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aʊt
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English doute (“doubt”). More at doubt.
Noun
dout
Etymology 2
Blend of do + out, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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)
- (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 86, column 1:
- Mount them, and make inciſion in their Hides, / That their hot blood may ſpin in Engliſh eyes, / And doubt them with ſuperfluous courage : ha.
- 1893, J. Keighley Snowden, “The Angel Barmaid”, in Tales of the Yorkshire Worlds, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, page 136:
- The fire she lit in every breast was fanned rather than douted by the rumour presently puffed abroad that she was the recipient of letters addressed in a man’s handwriting.
Related terms
- douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke.
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German tōt, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Cognate with German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Icelandic dauður.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dout (masculine douden, neuter dout, comparative méi dout, superlative am doutsten)
Declension
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
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