doting

dote (d

intr.v. dot·ed, dot·ing, dotes

To show excessive fondness or love: parents who dote on their only child.

[Middle English doten.]

doter n.

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Adj.

doting - extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother"

adoring, fond

loving - feeling or showing love and affection; "loving parents"; "loving glances"

doting

adjective adoring, devoted, fond, foolish, indulgent, lovesick his doting parents

Translations

doting [ˈdəʊtɪŋ] ADJ

1. (= loving) her doting parents → sus padres, que la adoran

2. (= senile) → chocho

doting [ˈdəʊtɪŋ] adj (= adoring) [mother, parent, husband] → aimant(e)
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adj her doting parents → ihre sie abgöttisch liebenden Eltern; a doting old fool → ein vernarrter alter Trottel

doting [ˈdəʊtɪŋ] adj doting mother → madre f che stravede per i figli
doting husband → marito che stravede per la moglie

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bottom drawer
doat
doited
dotage
dotard
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dote on
dote on or upon
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There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her.

Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary View in context

``Well, then,'' said Bois-Guilbert, ``I will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional.

Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context

With all her splendid common sense and practical everyday ability, Roxy was a doting fool of a mother.

Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context

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