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.