doit

American  

[doit] / dɔɪt /

noun

1. Also duit an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.

2. a bit or trifle.

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doit British  

/ dɔɪt /

noun

1. a former small copper coin of the Netherlands

2. a trifle

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Etymology

Origin of doit

First recorded in 1585–95, doit is from the Dutch word duit

Example Sentences

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doit

And to save a doit on the pound.

From Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland by Multatuli

An honest little boy once translated "La critique doit être bonne fille" by "The critic's wife ought to be a good girl."

From John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced by Max O'Rell

Shakespeare, for example, in Henry V., refers to it thus:— “And let us doit with no show of fear; No! with no more than if we heard that England Were busied with a Whitsun Morris-dance.”

From England in the Days of Old by William Andrews

Then he, whose only hope was in God, made answer to the Jew, and said— "I owe you nothing, since all that was your due has been paid to the uttermost doit."

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason

Friends now fast sworn, On a dissension of a doit, break out To bitterest enmity.

From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt