Doot
Verb
verb
- (chiefly Scotland) doubt
- 1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows Chapter , "Mair'd be a bother; an' I doot not ye'll mak' it all richt, lad."
- 1917, John Hay Beith, All In It: K(1) Carries On Chapter , No doot he'll try to pass himself off as an officer, for to get better quarters!"
- (chiefly Scotland) think
- 1920, James C. Welsh, The Underworld Chapter , "I think my pipe's on the mantelshelf," returned Geordie, "but I doot it's empty."