different between doxy vs doty

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

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