doited

American  

[doi-tid, -tit] / ˈdɔɪ tɪd, -tɪt /

adjective

Scot.

1. childish or feeble-minded, especially because of advanced age; senile.

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doited British  

/ ˈdɔɪtɪt, ˈdɔɪtɪd /

adjective

1. foolish or childish, as from senility

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Etymology

Origin of doited

1375–1425; late Middle English (Scots), apparently a form of Middle English doted, past participle of doten to dote

Example Sentences

Then she rambled on to the Days that were gone, the good old Days, and so to the Days before the Flood—which plainly showed her old head to be little better than crazed and doited.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

Many of the Erisaig people would still be watching their setting-out; and was it to be supposed that they had taken this doited old body as one of the crew?

From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by Black, William

Somebody maun stay to keep the house warm gin the lassie come stumbling hame, cauld and hungry and half doited!

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

Douce Davie Deans, the auld doited whig body's daughter, in a gipsy's barn, and the night setting in?

From The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Scott, Walter, Sir

And yet again:— Willie Warstle, auld Carle, Dottered, dune, and doited bodie, Feeds his weans on calfs' lugs, Sowps o' brose, and draps o' crowdie.

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert