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dorty

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d??ti/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)ti

Adjective

dorty (comparative more dorty, superlative most dorty)

  1. (Tyneside) Dirty; unclean.
    His claithes were dorty.

Related terms

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

References

  • Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4

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doty

English

Etymology

dote +? -y

Adjective

doty (comparative dotier, superlative dotiest)

  1. (carpentry, of wood) Suffering from rot, or waterlogged
    • 1903, John Fox Jr., The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
      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.
  2. (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

Anagrams

  • tody

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