doting
English
Etymology
From Middle English dotynge; equivalent to dote + -ing.
Verb
doting
- present participle of dote
Adjective
doting (comparative more doting, superlative most doting)
- Characterized by giving love and affection.
Noun
doting (plural dotings)
- Excessive fondness; reverence.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:
- It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.
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Anagrams
- tin dog, tin god