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doiting

doiting is the present participle and gerund of doit.

Meaning of doit

Verb

doit (third-person singular simple present doits, present participle doiting, simple past and past participle doited)

  1. (Scotland, rare) To stumble; to blunder.
    • I trembled with astonishment; and on my return from the small window went doiting in amongst the weaver's looms, tillI entangled myself, and could not get out again without working great deray amongst the coarse linen threads that stood in warp from one end of the apartment unto the other.1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

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Questions about doiting

What is doiting the present participle and gerund of?
Doiting is the present participle and gerund of doit.

Words near doiting in the dictionary

  1. doited
  2. doiter
  3. doitered
  4. doitering
  5. doiters
  6. doiting
  7. doitkin
  8. doitkins
  9. doitrified
  10. doits
  11. Doitsu

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