doater

¹

[ doh-ter ]

noun

1. doter.

doater

²

[ doh-ter ]

noun

, Newfoundland.

1. a fully mature harp seal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of doater¹

First recorded in 1785–95; apparently special use of dotard

Example Sentences

Patron of pleasure! doater on delight!

From Project Gutenberg

There's my Lady Simpson was asking me to stay with her, when my Howels and I was having money enough to buy her presents, and her son and doater did go to Abertewey when they did like—and now, not wan of all the fine folks do come and say, "How was you, Mrs Jenkins?"

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But, indeet, Rowland Prothero did be more than a son to me, and if Miss Gwynne was my own doater she couldn't be kinder.

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Although I am no doater on dreams, yet I verily believe that some dreams are monitory, above the power of fancy, and impressed upon us by some superior intelligence.

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Lady S. Yes, that insensible, that doater on an idiot, is the man.

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