doit
Americannoun
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Also duit an old small copper coin of the Netherlands and Dutch colonies, first issued in the 17th century.
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a bit or trifle.
noun
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a former small copper coin of the Netherlands
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a trifle
Etymology
Origin of doit
First recorded in 1585–95, doit is from the Dutch word duit
Example Sentences
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Une sanction à la hauteur doit être immédiatement prononcée.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022
Le vandalisme n’a pas sa place dans notre démocratie et la statue doit être restaurée.
From BBC • Aug. 30, 2020
Toute réclamation concernant le Concours doit être envoyée à cette adresse.
From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2012
Gibby cared not a doit for these things, but found himself foiled, and exposed to his family, and the whole world, if this fool chose to do it.
From The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) by Hogg, James
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 Andrews, William
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