Doomy vs Dooty - What's the difference?
doomy | dooty |
Filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic
* {{quote-news, year=1988, date=November 4, author=Franklin Soults, title=Sonic Youth, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Their big hit at the time was "Death Valley '69," a typical droney, doomy replay of the Manson murders that was about as illuminating as your average TV mini series. }}
* 1995 , Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing , Vintage 2007, p. 29:
(dated)
* {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Glad to see you back at the post of dooty . }}
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams, title=The Mystery, chapter=, edition=
, passage=When we gets back to the old Laughing Lass , then we drops back into our dooty again all right and proper. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Horatio Alger, Jr., title=Jack's Ward, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It's your dooty to do just as she tells you, and you'll do right. }}
As an adjective doomy
is filled with doom and gloom: depressing or pessimistic.As a noun dooty is
(dated).doomy
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- Those children playing didn't look like doomy little criminals, once you knew their names.
Anagrams
*dooty
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