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Definition of Donnat
1. n. See Do-naught.
Definition of Donnat
1. donnot [n -S] - See also: donnot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Donnat
Literary usage of Donnat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Goodwin's Official Annual Turf Guide for (1894)
"donnat, cb д by Macduff Lady Kinross.(TW Coulter) IK, 210, -fJ». 255, 200 :m, 346.
3K7 8. DON ELLA, ch f by imp. Albert—Lady Woodford (E. McCord) 4M 4. ..."
2. Memoirs of Mistral by Frédéric Mistral, Constance Elizabeth Maud (1907)
"exclaimed Monsieur donnat. " Why, send him to my school, up there at Saint-Michel,
we will teach him a little Latin and make a man of him ! ..."
3. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"17 donnat was the secretary ... Chevalier and donnat, the entire secretariat
ofthe Imperial Commission — a certain E. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"donnat, o. devil; an unruly person or animal . ' She's that o' t' donnat.'
From dow nought; soo Dow. ..."
5. Contemporary French Dramatists: Studies on the Théâtre Libre, Curel, Brieux by Barrett Harper Clark (1915)
"A doctor, Albert donnat, who is so bound up in his profession that he loses sight
... donnat is experimenting with cancer on a young consumptive girl who is ..."
6. A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Teesdale in the County of Durham by Frederick Dinsdale (1849)
"Applied to a worthless idle person; as, " That at t' donnat." " Jannet, thou
donot, I'll lay my best bonnet." Minst. of & B. Car. DOOK, vn To bathe. Jam. ..."
7. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop (1892)
"donnat (dow naught), that is, thrive not. Daw or Dow, to thrive. " He neither
dees nor daws" that is, he neither dies nor mends. " He'll never dow," that is ..."
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