Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
doitkin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A doit; a small coin.
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- noun A
doit ; a smallcoin .
Etymologies
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Dutch duitken, diminutive of duit. See doit, and compare doitkin.
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Examples
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That do I, replied Sancho Panza; for I am fully persuaded, that although God would rain kingdoms down upon the earth, none of them would sit well on Mary Gutierez her head; for, sir, you must understand that shes not worth a dodkin for a queen.
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'Either of the turnkeys would sell his soul for a dodkin, and blow up the castle for a ducat, Legate and all,' answered the sergeant in the same tone.
Stradella 1881
she commented on the word dodkin
An early name for the doit, a small Dutch coin. Hence, any coin of very small value.
August 6, 2008
yarb commented on the word dodkin
A number of olde bookes had he eaten with the moathes and wormes, now all daye would not hee studye a dodkin, but picke those wormes and moathes out of his Librarie, and of their mixture make a preseruatiue against the plague. The licour out of his shooes he would wring to make a sacred balsamum against barrennes.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010