different between dory vs doxy

English

Etymology 1

Attested in American English from 1709 C.E.; possibly derived from an indigenous language of the West Indies or Central America, perhaps Miskito.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???i/
• Rhymes: -???i

Noun

dory (plural dories)

1. (nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dorry, from Old French doree, past participle of dorer (“to gild”), from Latin deauratus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???i/
• Rhymes: -???i

Noun

dory (plural dories)

1. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.

Translations

Adjective

dory (comparative more dory, superlative most dory)

1. (obsolete) Of a bright yellow or golden color.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (dóru).

Pronunciation

Noun

dory (plural dories)

1. A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.
   • 2011 (republished 2014 as an e-book), Chris McNab, A History of the World in 100 Weapons, Oxford: Osprey Publishing, ?ISBN, page 37:

     The principal weapon of the hoplite was the dory spear. It was unusually long – it could measure up to 10ft (3m) in length, and weighed about 4.4lb (2kg). At one end was a broad, leaf-pattern spearhead, while at the other end was a metal spike called a sauroter. The purpose of the spike is much debated: it almost certainly acted as a counterbalance, making the spear easier to hold and wield; it could have been used as an improvised spear point, or for making downward attacks on the enemy's exposed feet; or it might even have been embedded in the ground to keep the spear in place.

Alternative forms

• doru

Further reading

• dory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dory (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dory (spear) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “dory”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• dyor

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?ksi/

  Rhymes: -?ksi

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Middle Dutch *doketje, diminutive of Middle Dutch docke (“a doll”). Cognate with Low German dokke (“doll”), Saterland Frisian dok, dokke (“a doll”), Swedish docka (“doll, puppet”).

Alternative forms

• doxie

Noun

doxy (plural doxies)

1. (archaic) A sweetheart; a prostitute or a mistress.
   • 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix

     However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 328:

     So then, of course, he paid her in kind...the place is full of his doxies, open a closet at Allington and some wench falls out of it.

Synonyms

• paramour

See also

• arch doxy

Etymology 2

From -doxy in orthodoxy, heterodoxy, etc.

Noun

doxy (plural doxies)

1. (colloquial) A defined opinion.
   • 1759, William Warburton, letter to Lord Sandwich

     Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Etymology 3

Clipping. From deoxy-.

Noun

doxy (uncountable)

1. (informal, pharmacology) Clipping of doxycycline.

Etymology 4

Clipping of dachshund +? -y.

Noun

doxy (plural doxies)

1. (informal) A dachshund.

Alternative forms

• doxie

Anagrams

• oxyd