Douit vs Doit - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between douit and doit

is that douit is (guernsey) a stream or brook while doit is (historical) a small dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.

douit

English

Noun

(en noun)

(Guernsey) A stream or brook.

* 1965 , (John Christopher), A Wrinkle in the Skin :

He crossed the douit and forced his way into the thicket.

* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 129:

He said, ‘Didn't you know that every douit and every hedge and every inch and square inch of land on Guernsey is weighed and measured, and has been for centuries?’

* 1989 , (Stephen Birnbaum), Birnbaum's Great Britain 1990 :

Visitors can stroll down to the beach along wooded paths beside streams known as "douits ."

* 2011 , ‘Blondel turns on the style’, The Guernsey Press , 20 May 2011:

The pair were virtually inseparable over the front nine until Eggo’s second shot on the ninth dived into the douit short of the green not to be seen again.

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doit

English

Noun

(en noun)

(historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.

* c.'' 1606 , , Act 4, Scene 12:

most monster-like, be shown / For poor'st diminutives, for doits ;

(archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.

* 1819 , — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

*:“Speak out, ye Saxon dogs — what bid ye for your worthless lives? — How say you, you of Rotherwood?” “Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba.

* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2

When / they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they / will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.

(music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.

* 1995 , Music & Computers (volume 1, issues 2-4, page 57)

Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits , fall-offs, and scoops.
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