Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small copper coin (the eighth part of a stiver) formerly current in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies, and worth about a farthing.
- n. Any trifling coin or sum of money.
- n. Hence A trifle: as, I care not a doit.
- An obsolete (Scotch) variant of dote.
Wiktionary
- n. historical A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
- n. archaic A small amount; a bit, a jot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money.
- n. A thing of small value.
WordNet 3.0
- v. have sexual intercourse with
Etymologies
- From Middle Low German doyt, cognate with Middle Dutch duit. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A l'oral, le contexte de la phrase doit permettre de savoir de quel mot il s'agit.”
“Veuillez donc bien, Monsieur, vous prêter à cet arrangement, dont les personnes intéressées ne manqueront pas certainement de vous tenir compte, vos droits sur la fabrication n'étant, d'ailleurs, que retardés, puisque le coin doit être refait.”
The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
“Jack, to his own shame, follows Willie into the muck by digging up "doit" (as they call it in Louisiana) on his own loving mentor, Judge Irwin (Philip Davidson), for political gain.”
“} Then just call doit () somewhere in the script to run it.”
“A kangaroo civilian trial in NYC would be an ideal vehicle for them to be able to do so, while claiming that “due process” made them doit.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing
“Anonsters says: geokstr: A kangaroo civilian trial in NYC would be an ideal vehicle for them to be able to do so, while claiming that “due process” made them doit.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Faisal Shahzad Allegedly Admits to Attempted Times Square Bombing
“If there has not been any sort of process to determine that someone is an enemy, then calling them the enemy will not make it so, no matter how many times you doit.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » No Habeas Jurisdiction Over Bagram Air Force Base
“However, there are strong reliance interests that counsel against immediate invalidation by courts, even if courts wanted to doit.”
“Steven Willis: I understand how a State might limit my claim to damages under State law; however, someone please explain how Congress can doit.”
““Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must doit.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doit’.
-
WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
-
phrontistery - d
from phrontistery.info
dacnomania, dacoitage, dacryops, dactylioglyph, dactyliology, dactyliomancy, dactylogram, dactylography, dactyloid, dactylology, dactylomancy, dactylomegaly and 624 more...
-
Hence
Words with definitions that have a "hence" in them.
hanger, Deet, tripe, spindlelegs, fiddle, store, pluck, snap, villain, link, comedy, particular and 410 more...
-
1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
-
Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
-
Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
-
Maineisms
Some of these were taken from older literature and have fallen out of use in the past few decades, but many are still used today in the same way they were used a century ago. By no means a compreh...
Yankeedom, wizzled, wing and wing, wickie-up, whiffletree, weewaw, wangan, wainy, upstair, twice-laid, tunket, trig and 136 more...
-
Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
-
Just 'cause I like 'em, D
dodecahedron, din, diglyceride, dysphotopsia, decoction, deboss, diatonic, dithyramb, divagate, discalced, dishdasha, daft and 281 more...
-
Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
-
Coined
cent, penny, nickel, dime, quarter, farthing, shilling, halfpenny, twopence, threepence, sixpence, groat and 91 more...
-
bloodworm's list
These are words that I enjoy because they are unique, rare, long, or just cool.
circumlocution, hysteresis, schadenfreude, quixotic, loquacious, ennui, sesquipedalian, defenestrate, obfuscate, syzygy, ubiquitous, superfluous and 231 more...
-
Literarie: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
A play by William Shakespeare.
sufferance, cram, garner, embracement, freelier, mammock, cambric, stitchery, cloven, murrain, manifest housekeeper, a crack'd drachma! and 88 more...
-
perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
-
Wilton's words
Favourite words, usages and passages from Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Iacke Wilton" (1594)
doit, dandiprat, weep one's urine ..., snudge, scuppet, langret, fullam, hedgecreeper, pickthanke, go shop the gander, together by the ears, quagmire and 42 more...
-
W.E.L.D.E.R.
réchauffé, gast, dere, heller, arête, wair, tut, shad, tipi, emeu, codon, unco and 65 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for doit.
yarb So likewise of his syder, the pore man might haue his moderate draught of it (as there is a moderation in all things) as well for his doit or his dandiprat, as the rich man for his halfe souse or his denier.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594 Mar 5, 2010
chained_bear "'Oh, here.' He brought out a small plastic bag and carefully poured a handful of tiny copper coins into a pile alongside the other money.
'Doits,' he explained. 'The smallest denomination of Scottish coinage at the time.'"
—Diana Gabaldon, Voyager (NY: Dell, 1994), 290 Jan 13, 2010
bilby "Friends now fast sworn,
Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart,
Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise
Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love
Unseparable, shall within this hour,
On a dissension of a doit, break out
To bitterest enmity..."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'. Aug 28, 2009
yarb Citation on bustle. Oct 2, 2008