DOTE

dote

(verb) shower with love; show excessive affection for; “Grandmother dotes on the twins”

dote

(verb) be foolish or senile due to old age

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

dote (third-person singular simple present dotes, present participle doting, simple past and past participle doted)

(intransitive, usually, with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody.

Synonyms: adore, love

(intransitive, archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.

Noun

dote (plural dotes)

(Ireland) A darling, a cutie.

(obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.

Synonyms

• (dotard): dobby, mimmerkin; see also dotard

Anagrams

• tode, toed

Source: Wiktionary

Dote, n. Etym: [See Dot dowry.]

1. A marriage portion. [Obs.] See 1st Dot, n. Wyatt.

2. pl.

Definition: Natural endowments. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Dote, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Doted;p. pr. & vb. n. Doting.] Etym: [OE. doten; akin to OD. doten, D. dutten, to doze, Icel. dotta to nod from sleep, MHG. t to keep still: cf. F. doter, OF. radoter (to dote, rave, talk idly or senselessly), which are from the same source.] [Written also doat.]

1. To act foolishly. [Obs.] He wol make him doten anon right. Chaucer.

2. To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel. Time has made you dote, and vainly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. Dryden. He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. South.

3. To be excessively or foolishly fond; to love to excess; to be weakly affectionate; -- with on or upon; as, the mother dotes on her child. Sing, siren, for thyself, and I will dote. Shak. What dust we dote on, when 't is man we love. Pope.

Dote, n.

Definition: An imbecile; a dotard. Halliwell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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