dout
/daʊt
/(also dowt) chiefly Scottish
verb [with object]
Extinguish (a fire or light): he sent her and Peter back to dout the fire...
- Well they douted the light and they said goodnight to the landlord then they made their way home.
noun
A cigarette end: he inserts the dout off-centre between his lips...
- He shuffled his way around the streets dragging his right leg behind him, a bit like "the mummy" in the old movies, puffing away at a dowt he had picked up in the gutter and wearing a cloth cap and raggy clothes.
Origin
Early 16th century (as a verb): contraction of do out. The noun dates from the 1940s.
- get (or go) back to nature
- get (or go) nowhere
- get (or have) a load on
- get (or have) one's ducks in a row
- get (or have) one's end away
- get (or have) one's (own) way
- get (or have or give someone) the hump
- get (or have) someone by the short and curlies (or short hairs)
- get (or have) the goods on
- get (or have) the jump on someone
- get (or have) the worst of it
- get (or keep) one's eye in
- get (or keep) one's hand in
- get (or keep) the show on the road
- get (or lay)one's hands on
- get (or pull) one's finger out
- get (or put) someone's back up
- get (or receive) one's just deserts
- get (or sink) one's teeth into
- get (or start) off on the right (or wrong) foot
- get (or stick) the knife into (or in) someone
- get (or take) a rise out of
- get (or take or have) the bit between (or in) one's teeth
- get (or take or have) the measure of
- get out