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单词 dout
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doutn.

Brit. /daʊt/, U.S. /daʊt/, Scottish English /dʌʊt/
Forms: 1500s dowt, 1800s dout (English regional (northern)); also Scottish 1900s– doubt, 1900s– dout, 1900s– dowt.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: dout v.
Etymology: < dout v.With sense 1 compare later douter n. With sense 2 perhaps compare earlier doup n.1
1. An implement used to extinguish a burning candle; a douter (douter n.), a snuffer. Now rare (English regional in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > extinguishing light > that which extinguishes (candles or torches)
snitelc1000
candle-quencher1382
sniters1382
sniting tongsa1425
snuffer1465
sniting instrumentc1475
candle-shears1483
sniting iron1483
out-quencher1535
candle-snuffer1552
snufter1558
extinguisher1562
dout1573
douter1622
topper1688
link-extinguisher1859
squencher1871
1573 in P. Cunningham Extracts Accts. Revels at Court (1842) 58 Bodkyns & dowtes for lightes..xiij.
1579 in P. Cunningham Extracts Accts. Revels at Court (1842) 160 Dowtes for Candells, vj snuffers vj paire.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Dout, an extinguisher, wherewith to put out—‘do out’—a candle.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Dout, an extinguisher.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Dout, the snuff of a candle.
2. Scottish (western). The end of a smoked or partially smoked cigarette; a cigarette butt. Cf. doup n.1 4(b).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigar or cigarette > butt or end of
doup1710
butt end1827
old soldier1834
butt1847
stub1855
cigar-end1870
stub-end1875
cigarette-end1889
cigar-butt1891
snipe1891
fag end1892
fag1897
bumper1899
scag1915
cigarette-butt1923
dout1928
dog-end1934
roach1939
stompie1947
1928 T. Wright in Sc. National Dict. (1952) III. 135/1 [Lanarkshire] Dowt [a cigarette-end].
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.
2016 Paisley Daily Express (Nexis) 13 Aug. 1 Cops recovered a cigarette dout, from which Rennie's DNA was recovered.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

doutv.

Brit. /daʊt/, U.S. /daʊt/
Forms: 1500s dowte, 1500s–1600s 1800s– dout, 1600s doubt, 1800s dought, 1800s dowt.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: to do out at do v. Phrasal verbs 2.
Etymology: Shortened < to do out at do v. Phrasal verbs 2. Compare don v. and earlier doff v.
1. transitive. To put out or extinguish (a fire or light).
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > make dark [verb (transitive)] > quench (light)
aquenchc1000
quenchOE
to do outa1425
extinct1483
to put outa1500
out-quencha1522
dout1526
pop1530
extinguish1551
to put forth1598
snuff1688
douse1753
douse1780
smoor1808
to turn out1844
outen1877
to turn off1892
to black out1913
1526 C. Mery Talys sig. Aiii Dout the candell and dout the fyre.
?1575 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. (new ed.) 369 If in the place of snuffing, we dowte the candel.
1661 S. Pordage Mundorum Explicatio i. 120 Flouds of temptations, nor whole streams of sin,..Are strong enough to dout that little spark.
1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk II. 141 Grist doughted his lantern.
1868 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 710 Your light isn't dowted most part of the night.
1908 Spectator 27 June 1029/1 ‘Hist!’ said the Mother: ‘dout the light!’
1941 M. Whipple Giant Joshua ii. 39 Dout the fires thoroughly and see that none of the children lag behind.
2016 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 2 July a6 A smouldering, timid half-blaze.., at which we stared for a while and then ‘douted’ with cans of water.
2. transitive. To dim or obstruct (a person's eyes) so as to obscure vision; to blind. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > blind
blendc888
forblendc1175
blindfoldc1320
to put out a person's eyesc1325
blinda1400
dark?c1400
darken?a1425
quenchc1450
excecate?1540
stark blind1574
beblind1575
douta1616
unsight?1615
benight1621
emblind1631
occaecate1664
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. ii. 11 Dolph. Make incision in their Hides, That their hot blood may spin in English eyes, And doubt them with superfluous courage: ha. Ram. What, wil you haue them weep our Horses blood?
1691 A. D'Anvers Academia 15 When you drink deep it flies about And douts one's eyes and makes one cough.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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