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doty | dooty |

As an adjective doty

is suffering from rot, or waterlogged.

As a noun dooty is

an alternative spelling of lang=en.

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

    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. }}