dout

• Rhymes: -aʊt

From Middle English doute (“doubt”). More at doubt.

dout

1. Obsolete spelling of doubt.
2. Misspelling of doubt.

Blend of do +‎ out, from Middle English don ut (“do out”). Compare don, doff, dup.

dout (third-person singular simple present douts, present participle douting, simple past and past participle douted)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 86, column 1:

     Mount them, and make inciſion in their Hides, / That their hot blood may ſpin in Engliſh eyes, / And doubt them with ſuperfluous courage : ha.

   • 1893, J. Keighley Snowden, “The Angel Barmaid”, in Tales of the Yorkshire Worlds, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, page 136:

     The fire she lit in every breast was fanned rather than douted by the rumour presently puffed abroad that she was the recipient of letters addressed in a man’s handwriting.

• douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke.

Inherited from Old Czech dúti, from Proto-Slavic *dǫti. Doublet of dmout.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdou̯t]

dout impf

1. to blow, to gust

   Synonyms: vát, foukat

• “douti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “douti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “dout”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Old High German *dōd (attested in inflections), northern variant of tōt, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Cognate with German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Icelandic dauður.

• IPA^(key): /deu̯t/, [dəʊ̯t]
• Rhymes: -əʊt
• Homophone: Doud

dout (masculine douden, neuter dout, comparative méi dout, superlative am doutsten)

1. dead

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• Doud
• doutlaachen
• doutmaachen
• doutschloen
• douttrëppelen