doit
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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.
- 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?"
- (archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 9:
- […] when they will not giue a doit to relieue a lame Begger, they will lay out ten to ſee a dead Indian: […]
- 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. , →OCLC:
- “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.
- (music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
- 1995, Music & Computers, volume 1, numbers 2-4, page 57:
- Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.
Translations
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.
Further reading
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dwa/
Audio (file) - Homophones: doigt, doigts, dois (general), doua, douas, douât (one 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
| Welsh mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
| doit | ddoit | noit | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||