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Dots vs Doty - What's the difference?

dots | doty |

As a noun dots

is plural of lang=en.

As a verb dots

is third-person singular of dot.

As an adjective doty is

suffering from rot, or waterlogged.

dots

English

Noun

(-)
  • A punctuation mark consisting of three dots, indicating an omission of some text or a sentence which wasn't fully finished, an ellipsis.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (dot)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    doty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (carpentry, of wood) Suffering from rot, or waterlogged
  • *1903 ,
    • An hour later, he came upon a hollow tree, filled with doty wood which he could tear out with his hands and he built a fire and broiled a little more bacon.
  • (US, dialectal, of a person) Senile; in one's dotage

    • Alternative forms

    * (suffering from rot) doaty, dotey

    Derived terms

    * dotiness

    See also

    * dotty * doty in the Dictionary of American Regional English