Doted
['dəutid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Dote
(a.) Stupid; foolish.
(a.) Half-rotten; as, doted wood.
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Examples
- What could I do, but kiss away her tears, and tell her how I doted on her, after that! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He doted on her boy--tenderly doted on him! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She was quite disappointed that Mr. Sedley was not married; she was sure Amelia had said he was, and she doted so on little children. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She doted on her eldest son and her youngest girl (a child of six), whom others thought her two naughtiest children. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Miss Eliza Higgins, as it will be perceived, doted on superlatives. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- On an eel-pasty he particularly doted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Oh, we shall never get to Brighton, said Fanny, who doted on donkey-riding. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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