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doating

doating

English

Verb

doating

  1. (obsolete) present participle of doat; doting
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88
      "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.

Noun

doating (plural doatings)

  1. Obsolete form of doting.