▪ I. dout, v. Now dial.
(daʊt)
Also 6 dowt, (7 doubt, 9 dought).
[Coalesced form of do out: see do v. 49.]
trans. To put out or extinguish (a fire or light).
| 1526 J. Rastell Hundred Merry Tales (1866) 2 Dout the candell and dout the fyre. 1574 Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. 357 If in the place of snuffing, we dowt the candel. 1691 Alicia D'Anvers Academia 15 It flies about And douts one's eyes and makes one cough. 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk II. 141 Grist doughted his lantern. [In nearly every Dialect Glossary from Yorkshire to Isle of Wight.] |
▪ II. dout, n. Now dial.
In 6 dowt.
[f. prec.]
A douter or extinguisher.
| 1573 in P. Cunningham Revels Acc. (Shaks. Soc.) 58 Bodkyns and dowtes for lightes..xiii d. 1579 Ibid. 160 Dowtes for Candells, vj snuffers vj paire. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Dout, an extinguisher. |
Add: 2. A cigarette-end. Cf. stub n. 9 a. Sc. (chiefly Western).
Prob. the same word as in sense 1, though development from north. Eng. dial. would normally give (dut). This sense may in fact represent an alteration of the much commoner doup n.
| 1948 Glasgow Herald 6 Sept. 2/1 To his standard equipment of pipe, pouch, and cigarette case, he has now added a little tin box for dowts. 1975 W. McIlvanney Docherty i. xii. 91 Tam sat down again and lit a dout. 1985 M. Munro Patter 21 Dout or dowt, a cigarette-end. There's the old joke about the schoolboy who, when given a row by his father for smoking, says it's all right to smoke because Jesus smokes (the minister had told him to bring all his doubts to Jesus). |
▪ III. dout, -able, -ance etc.,
obs. ff. doubt, etc.