DOTINGS

Noun

dotings

plural of doting

Anagrams

• tin dogs, tin gods

Source: Wiktionary


DOTING

Dot"ing, a.

Definition: That dotes; silly; excessively fond.

– Dot"ing*ly, adv.

– Dot"ing*ness, n.

DOTE

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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