dot
noun
a small, roundish mark made with or as if with a pen.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Like this one that I am dotting up with oil crayons, only a real ancient one.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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