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Webster 1913 Edition


Doit

Doit

(doit)
,
Noun.
[D.
duit
, Icel.
pveit
, prop., a piece cut off. See
Thwaite
a piece of ground,
Thwite
.]
1.
A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money.
Shak.
2.
A thing of small value;
as, I care not a
doit
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Doit

DOIT

,
Noun.
[G.]
1.
A small piece of money.
2.
A trifle. Hence our vulgar phrase, I care not a doit. It is used adverbially and commonly pronounced dite.

Definition 2024


doit

doit

See also: do it

English

Noun

doit (plural doits)

  1. (historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
  2. (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.
  3. (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.

Etymology 2

From Scots doit, apparently a Scottish form of English dote.

Verb

doit (third-person singular simple present doits, present participle doiting, simple past and past participle doited)

  1. (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.

French

Pronunciation

Verb

doit

  1. Must, has to third-person singular present indicative of devoir
    Il doit aller en France un jour
    He must go to France one day

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin digitus.

Noun

doit m (oblique plural doiz or doitz, nominative singular doiz or doitz, nominative plural doit)

  1. finger (appendage)

Descendants


Welsh

Alternative forms

  • delet (colloquial)
  • deuit (literary)
  • deuet (literary)
  • doet (colloquial)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔi̯t/

Verb

doit

  1. (literary) second-person singular imperfect / conditional of dod

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.