"doocot" meaning in English

See doocot in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: doocots [plural]
Etymology: From Scots. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|sco|-}} Scots Head templates: {{en-noun}} doocot (plural doocots)
  1. (Scotland) dovecote Tags: Scotland

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sco",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Scots.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "doocots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "doocot (plural doocots)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Animal dwellings",
          "orig": "en:Animal dwellings",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              59,
              66
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009 January 29, Ray Collier, “Country diary”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "The rock dove has so interbred with the feral pigeons from doocots and racing pigeon lofts that, as a pure species, it may possibly now be extinct in Britain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dovecote"
      ],
      "id": "en-doocot-en-noun-orx-wECg",
      "links": [
        [
          "dovecote",
          "dovecote"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) dovecote"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "doocot"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sco",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Scots",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Scots.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "doocots",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "doocot (plural doocots)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Scots",
        "English terms derived from Scots",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Scottish English",
        "en:Animal dwellings"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              59,
              66
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2009 January 29, Ray Collier, “Country diary”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "The rock dove has so interbred with the feral pigeons from doocots and racing pigeon lofts that, as a pure species, it may possibly now be extinct in Britain.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "dovecote"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dovecote",
          "dovecote"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) dovecote"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "doocot"
}

Download raw JSONL data for doocot meaning in English (1.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-14 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-02-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 59dc20b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.