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Dooty vs Pooty - What's the difference?

dooty | pooty |

As a noun dooty

is an alternative spelling of lang=en.

As an adjective pooty is

pretty.

As an adverb pooty is

pretty.

dooty

English

Noun

(head)
  • (dated)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , 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= citation
    • , passage=It's your dooty to do just as she tells you, and you'll do right. }}

    pooty

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal) pretty
  • * 1857 , The Atlantic Monthly/Volume 1, No.1, Sally Parson's Duty
  • *:"Bless your pooty little figger-head, Sally! I don't know as 'tis, but suthin' nigh about as bad is a-comin...

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (dialectal) pretty
  • * 1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) Chapter VIII
  • *:"Well, you see, it 'uz dis way. Ole missus — dat's Miss Watson — she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell me down to Orleans.