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doating
doating
English
Verb
doating
- (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.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88
Noun
doating (plural doatings)
- Obsolete form of doting.