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Dorty vs Dorky - What's the difference?

dorty | dorky |

As adjectives the difference between dorty and dorky

is that dorty is (geordie) dirty; unclean while dorky is like a dork, or having a dork's characteristics.

dorty

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (Geordie) Dirty; unclean.
    • His claithes were dorty .

    Related terms

    * dirty (Standard English) * hacky (Geordie) * hacky dorty (Geordie) * unclean (Standard English)

    References

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    dorky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Like a dork, or having a dork's characteristics.
  • * 1962 , Alain Robbe-Grillet, Last year at Marienbad page 167:
    • I entitled the piece "Dorky ", dork being slang for a person who does not belong to popular groups, usually an outsider, an odd person, sometimes inept, other times cranky.
  • * 1998 , Dana Redfield, Lucy Blue and the Daughters of Light ISBN 9781571741073
    • Anyway this dorky guy asks Sallyfrass to dance and she kind of likes him...