doating

doating

English

Verb

doating

1. (obsolete) present participle of doat; doting
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88

     "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.

Noun

doating (plural doatings)

1. Obsolete form of doting.
   • 1865, The Sunday Magazine (page 98)

     […] infinite love, and grace, and condescension, and fatherly yearnings, and conjugal doatings […]

Anagrams

• antidog, antigod, gonatid, toading