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語源 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German doyt, cognate with Middle Dutch duit. Doublet of thwaite.

名詞

doit (plural doits)

1. (historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     '"You got a lot of gold off Mr. Beauclerc," says Glascock.
     '"Not a doit more than I wanted," says he, laughing again. "And who, pray, had a better right—did not I murder him?"

2. (archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 9:

     […] when they will not giue a doit to relieue a lame Begger, they will lay out ten to ſee a dead Indian: […]

   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     “Speak out, ye Saxon dogs — what bid ye for your worthless lives? — How say you, you of Rotherwood?” “Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba.

3. (music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
   • 1995, Music & Computers, volume 1, numbers 2-4, page 57:

     Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.

派生語

語源 2

Borrowed from Scots doit, apparently a Scots cognate of dote.

動詞

doit (third-person singular simple present doits, present participle doiting, simple past and past participle doited)

1. (Scotland, rare) To stumble; to blunder.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     I trembled with astonishment; and on my return from the small window went doiting in amongst the weaver's looms, tillI entangled myself, and could not get out again without working great deray amongst the coarse linen threads that stood in warp from one end of the apartment unto the other.

Further reading

• duit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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動詞

do it (third-person singular simple present does it, present participle doing it, simple past did it, past participle done it)

1. (colloquial) To be appealing or suitable.

   Synonyms: fit the bill, cut it

   A green shirt with orange slacks really doesn't do it for me, I’m afraid.

2. (slang, chiefly used in the past tense) To do something exceptionally foolish or unacceptable.

   He did it this time!

   She's really done it now!

   • 1953 November, Herbert Farris, Boys' Life, Boy Scouts of America, page 38:

     "Now you've done it, Chuck," the Colonel groaned. "Now you've done it! I brought you down here to teach my boys how to ride, not to kill them — this is terrible!"

   • 1986, Rita-Lou Clarke, Pastoral Care of Battered Women, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     The man glared at her and said, "Now you've done it. Now you've done it. You've made me mad. If you don't put that back, you will make me even madder.

   • 2010, Maggie Barbara Gale, John F. Deeney, Dan Rebellato, The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism to Contemporary Performance, Routledge, →ISBN, page 375:

     Sally: Oh, stop it! I never heard of anything so daft in my life. Mrs Jike: Eh, what? Now you've done it! The spirits have all gone away.

   • 2012, Lilian Harry, Snowfall in Burracombe, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 50:

     Stephen drew in a shaky breath. Now you've done it, he said to himself. There'll be no way out now. The old man will get his claws into you and you'll be hooked for life, like poor old Hilary.

3. (slang, euphemistic) To have sex; to make it.

   Synonyms: bang, get it on, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate

   He was upstairs doing it with her.

   • 1928, Cole Porter, “Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love”:

     And that's why birds do it, bees do it / Even educated fleas do it

   • 1968, Lennon–McCartney, “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?”, in The Beatles (The White Album), performed by The Beatles:

     Why don't we do it in the road / No one will be watching us

   • 1987, James Dearden, Fatal Attraction, spoken by Alex Forrest (Glenn Close):

     Have you ever done it in an elevator?

   • 1988, “Rise and Fall”, in Michael Weikath (lyrics), Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II, performed by Helloween:

     The king of Los Angeles / Bought himself a teddy bear / And the queen became shameless / She did it with a chair

   • 2017 September 2, Chelsea Peng, “5 *Scientific* Reasons to Have More Sex”, in Marie Claire‎:

     Speaking of golden numbers, a Wilkes University study might've found the optimum one as it relates to sex frequency and its effect on the human immune system: once or twice a week. Researchers discovered that college students who Did It that much had higher levels of a certain antibody that helps fight off colds and the flu.

4. (rare, slang, euphemistic) To urinate.

   Synonyms: do business, pass water; see also Thesaurus:urinate

   • 1991, “I'll Never Do It on a Christmas Tree”, in David Newman (lyrics), Rover Dangerfield, performed by Rover Dangerfield:

     I'll never do it on a Christmas tree / A Christmas tree is safe from me.

5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do,‎ it.

   You did it! And in record time! Congratulations!

参考

• that does it

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