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Dout vs Douit - What's the difference?

dout | douit |

As nouns the difference between dout and douit

is that dout is while douit is (guernsey) a stream or brook.

As a verb dout

is (transitive|dialectal|or|obsolete) to put out; quench; extinguish; douse.

dout

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(head)

    • Etymology 2

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
    • The fire she lit was fanned rather than douted . ? Snowden.
    Related terms
    * douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke. ----

    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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