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doatish

doatish is the obsolete spelling of dotish.

Meaning of dotish

Adjective

dotish (comparative more dotish, superlative most dotish)

  1. (archaic) foolish
    • Right! why I think the man's dotiſh, or mad, you talk ſo plainly, ſure any one that is not out of their ſenſes may underſtand you.1801, The jealous man convinced that he is no cuckold

Forms of doatish

comparativemore doatish
superlativemost doatish

Questions about doatish

What is doatish the obsolete spelling of?
Doatish is the obsolete spelling of dotish.

Words near doatish in the dictionary

  1. doating
  2. doating-piece
  3. doating-pieces
  4. doatingly
  5. doatings
  6. doatish
  7. doats
  8. dob
  9. dob in
  10. dob on
  11. dobash

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doatish (page history and authors); dotish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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