do itとは

意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

do it (三人称単数 現在形 does it, 現在分詞 doing it, 過去形 did it, 過去分詞 done it)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do,‎ it.

   You did it! And in record time! Congratulations!

2. (colloquial) To be appealing or suitable.

   Synonym: fit the bill

   A green shirt with orange slacks really doesn’t do it for me, I’m afraid.

3. (slang, euphemistic) To have sex; make it.

   Synonyms: bang, get it on, have, sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate

   He was upstairs doing it with her.

   • 1968, Lennon–McCartney (lyrics かつ music), “Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?”, in The Beatles (The White Album), performed by The Beatles:

     Why don't we do it in the road / No one will be watching us

   • 1988, Michael Weikath (lyrics), “Rise and Fall”, in Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II, performed by Helloween:

     The king of Los Angeles / Bought himself a teddy bear / And the queen became shameless / She did it with a chair

4. (rare, slang, euphemistic) To urinate.

   Synonyms: do business, pass water; see also Thesaurus:urinate

   1991, David Newman (lyrics), “I'll Never Do It on a Christmas Tree”, in Rover Dangerfield, performed by Rover Dangerfield:

   I'll never do it on a Christmas tree / A Christmas tree is safe from me.

語源 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German doyt, cognate with Middle Dutch duit. Doublet of thwaite.

名詞

doit (複数形 doits)

1. (historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
   • c. 1606, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 12:

     most monster-like, be shown / For poor'st diminutives, for doits;

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     '"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?"

2. (archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.
   • 1819, — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     “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.

   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     When / they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they / will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.

3. (music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
   • 1995, Music & Computers (volume 1, issues 2-4, page 57)

     Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.

語源 2

Borrowed from Scots doit, apparently a Scots cognate of dote.

動詞

doit (三人称単数 現在形 doits, 現在分詞 doiting, 過去形および過去分詞形 doited)

1. (Scotland, まれに) To stumble; to blunder.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     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.