Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stupid; foolish.
- Decayed, as a tree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Stupid; foolish.
- adjective Local, U. S. Half-rotten.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dote . - adjective obsolete
stupid ;foolish - adjective US, obsolete half-
rotten
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Examples
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And yet, in the face of famine and the rigorous winter, he went out gayly in quest of a mess of trout, forsooth, because he "doted" on them!
MOON-FACE 2010
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And yet, in the face of famine and the rigorous winter, he went out gayly in quest of a mess of trout, forsooth, because he "doted" on them!
Moon-Face 1906
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Stephen Padden "doted" on his grandchild say his family
BBC News - Home 2011
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"doted" on his wife of 20 years and their daughter.
Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories 2010
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Although Prince Philip had shown little interest in his own children when they were young, he doted on William and Harry.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Google posted a 36% jump in quarterly profit and a 32% jump in revenue, sending its shares surging and wresting back the attention of investors who lately have doted on newer Internet darlings.
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My mother doted on her grandchildren, especially my sister's children, who had lived with her for part of their childhoods.
Don McNay: My Story: Why People Need Wills Don McNay 2011
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There are only a handful of entrepreneurs who doted on Steve Jobs as publicly as Masayoshi Son , the founder and chief executive of Japan's Internet and mobile carrier Softbank Corp. In the last few years, Mr. Son has compared the late Apple CEO to Leonardo da Vinci and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, while labeling him a "genius" and a "god."
Softbank Founder Masayoshi Son: The 'Next Steve Jobs'? Juro Osawa 2011
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My mother doted on her grandchildren, especially my sister's children, who had lived with her for part of their childhoods.
Don McNay: My Story: Why People Need Wills Don McNay 2011
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At Kensington Palace, Diana doted shamelessly on “ma boys,” as she jokingly referred to the princes in her version of an antebellum drawl, allowing them to spend hours in front of the television set, zip around the grounds on their BMX bikes, or chase each other down portrait-lined hallways and through chandeliered drawing rooms waving rubber swords.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
oroboros commented on the word doted
Detod in reverse.
Tod:
1. A unit of weight for wool, especially one equivalent to about 28 pounds (12.7 kilograms).
2. A bushy clump, as of ivy.
November 2, 2007