dought

• enPR: dout, IPA^(key): /daʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt
• Homophone: doubt

A back-formation from doughty (compare Scots doucht, from douchty). Related to dow.

dought (usually uncountable, plural doughts)

1. (Scotland, Northern England, obsolete except in derivatives) Power, strength, ability.

• Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[1], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 136

From Middle English doghte, from Old English dohte (first and third person singular past tense of dugan (“to avail, be useful”)).

dought

1. (dialect) alternative past of dow

• douȝt, duȝt, dughth

Apocopic form of doughty.

• IPA^(key): /duxt/, /duːxt/

dought (rare)

1. doughty

• “dought, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 June 2019.