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  • noun Plural form of doit.

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Examples

  • But the most of it will be in doits and pence and other small coins.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • After an uncertain pause, one or two bold souls followed suit, and then a few more, digging copper doits and pence out of purse and sporran.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • However, organization is not something you doits a place where you are and a commitment to living in a particular way.

    Enough Already Peter Walsh 2009

  • Organization is not something that you doits where you are and how you live.

    Enough Already Peter Walsh 2009

  • Its not that we dont love each otherof course we doits just that we have very different opinions about the quality of life.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • Its not that we dont love each otherof course we doits just that we have very different opinions about the quality of life.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • Its not that we dont love each otherof course we doits just that we have very different opinions about the quality of life.

    Deadly Intent Lynda La Plante 2008

  • Almost the only food, however, that we can obtain with any regularity, are fish and cockles of very good quality, and to supply our daily wants it is absolutely necessary to be always provided with four articles — tobacco, knives, sago-cakes, and Dutch copper doits — because when the particular thing asked for is not forthcoming, the fish pass on to the next house, and we may go that day without a dinner.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • I sent a bag containing 6,000 doits, and duly received the new money by return of the boat.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • He had exactly fourteen shillings, threepence in his pocket, together with a handful of copper doits and a couple of farthings.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

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