"Ye old bletherin 'doited witch!" he said, "ye old –" His eloquence had not failed him, and Marg'ret, though a brave woman, who had taken these objurgations composedly enough on previous occasions, was altogether overwhelmed by the torrent of fiery words, and the red ferocious light in the eyes of the skeleton form in the bed. ❋ Margaret (1891)
“Here, ye auld doited deevil,” said Caleb, still exulting in his extrication from a dilemma which had seemed insurmountable; ❋ Unknown (2008)
I hae nae wish to be drum-major; it were nae great things to be like the doited carle, Else-than-gude, as they call him; and, troth, he has nae his name for naething. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And then in truth the worthy magistrate waxed somewhat wroth; at first accusing Mr. Comyn of being credulously duped by some pawkie servant who owed him a grudge, and ending by setting him down as "clean daft, doited, and dazed by too mickle study," (and in his ire he had very nearly added, "too much toddy.") ❋ Various (N/A)
The stupid auld fule had gotten that doited that he cam 'fleein' awa 'wi' the bell in his hand. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
He would jest with Miss Mary till she cried "The man's doited!" though she clearly liked it; to Gilian he began the narration of an unending series of campaign tales. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
"That's no an umberell, you doited fule," says I. "That's the denner bell you've been fleein 'aboot wi' i 'your hand." ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)
'Tis the puir doited loonie -- the mitherless bairn! ❋ Various (N/A)
They 'll say I was doited, they' ll say I was fu '; ❋ Various (N/A)
You and Mr. James are awfully good to me, and I can put up with Mr. Morrison, though he's a doited old thing, and I like my work, but coming here in the morning and going home at night, day in and day out, it drives me crazy. ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
He loved every word of it, from the moment she explosively told him that it was all very well to hee-haw up there like a doited giraffe, and his mind felt the same pleasure that the palate gets out of a good curry as she told him that the English were a miserable, decadent people who were held together only by the genius and application of the Scotch, that ❋ Rebecca West (1937)
Juden was a wily man in his youth, and sly as a pole-cat, but men say that nowadays he hath grown doited, [4] and does nought but sit with his wife and his three ugly daughters from morning till night. ❋ Elizabeth Wilson Grierson (1908)
Thou clears the head o 'doited Lear: [muddled Learning] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)
Your mother keeps well enough; though doited, o 'course -- doited. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
They went their ways, agreeing that the woman was doited. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
"Aiblins his puir auld doited fool of a dad kens mair than the dear lad thinks for, ay, or wushes -- eh, Wullie, he! he!" ❋ Alfred Ollivant (1900)
In time Johnny Allardice, our host, who became more and more doited as the night proceeded, remembered his instructions, and led the way to the kitchen, where the guests, having politely informed their hostess that they were not hungry, partook of a hearty tea. ❋ Unknown (1898)
You've been dinging me doited about that eldership, and we'll play for't. ❋ Unknown (1898)
In time Johnny Allardice, our host, who became more and more and doited as the night proceeded, remembered his instructions, and led the way to the kitchen, where the guests, having politely informed their hostess that they were not hungry, partook of a hearty tea. ❋ Unknown (1898)
To his face she referred to him as a doited sumph, but to Grizel pleading for him she admitted that despite his warts and quarrelsome legs he was a great big muckle sonsy, stout, buirdly well set up, wise-like, havering man. ❋ Unknown (1898)
