Definition of "doit"

doit¹

/dɔɪt/

noun
plural doits
1. (historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
  Quotations
  '"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?"
  1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
2. (archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.
  Quotations
  […] when they will not giue a doit to relieue a lame Begger, they will lay out ten to ſee a dead Indian: […]
  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, [Act II, scene ii], page 9
  “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.
  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. […]
3. (music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
  Quotations
  Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.
  1995, Music & Computers, volume 1, numbers 2-4, page 57

doit²

/dɔɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present doits, present participle doiting, simple past and past participle doited
1. (Scotland, rare) To stumble; to blunder.
  Quotations
  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.
  1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner