doited
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of doited
1375–1425; late Middle English (Scots), apparently a form of Middle English doted, past participle of doten to dote
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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 William Black
The poor weak doited thing," she said at last in a tone of indescribable contempt, "the poor silly fule!
From Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Your mother keeps well enough; though doited, o' course— doited.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 Sir Walter Scott
"That's no an umberell, you doited fule," says I. "That's the denner bell you've been fleein' aboot wi' i' your hand."
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
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