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, chiefly used in the past tense) To do something foolish and unacceptable.

   He did it this time! She's really done it now!

   • 1953 November, Herbert Farris, Boys' Life, Boy Scouts of America, page 38:

     "Now you've done it, Chuck," the Colonel groaned. "Now you've done it! I brought you down here to teach my boys how to ride, not to kill them — this is terrible!"

   • 1986, Rita-Lou Clarke, Pastoral Care of Battered Women, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 50:

     The man glared at her and said, "Now you've done it. Now you've done it. You've made me mad. If you don't put that back, you will make me even madder.

   • 2010, Maggie Barbara Gale, John F. Deeney, Dan Rebellato, The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism to Contemporary Performance, Routledge, →ISBN, page 375:

     Sally: Oh, stop it! I never heard of anything so daft in my life. Mrs Jike: Eh, what? Now you've done it! The spirits have all gone away.

   • 2012, Lilian Harry, Snowfall in Burracombe, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 50:

     Stephen drew in a shaky breath. Now you've done it, he said to himself. There'll be no way out now. The old man will get his claws into you and you'll be hooked for life, like poor old Hilary.

4. (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

5. (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.

発音

• IPA^(key): /dɔɪt/
  • 韻: -ɔɪt

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.
   • 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.
   • 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], page 9:

     […] when they will not giue a doit to relieue a lame Begger, they will lay out ten to ſee a dead Indian: […]

   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:

     “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.

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, rare) 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.

Further reading

• duit on Wikipedia.