coit

/ kɔɪt /

noun

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Origin of coit¹

C20: perhaps a variant and special use of quoit , referring to roundness

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In 1872, the second president of the University of California, Daniel Coit Gilman, said science was "the mother of California."

But, if bi-coit-suk does not mean twins, I am greatly mistaken.

Dr. Coit need not fear that ridicule will excite apprehensions about the multiplication table.

What a charm ther is abaat owt new; whether it's a new year or a new waist-coit.

Aw tell'd him he'd made a fooil on me, an' aw consider'd mysen dropt on, but noa moor nor he wor wi' havin' to leave th' coit.

As sooin as he coom near th' coit he could hear him snoaring away ommost as laad as a trombone.

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