Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Decayed; decaying.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Local, U. S. Half-rotten.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective carpentry, of wood Suffering from rot, or waterlogged
  • adjective US, dialectal, of a person Senile; in one's dotage

Etymologies

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dote +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Not in 1000 years would I have realized "doty" was actually "dAy" if you hadn't told me.

    Father's Day Wrap-Up Jen 2009

  • I would have forever read doty if you hadn't pointed it out what it was supposed to be.

    Father's Day Wrap-Up Jen 2009

  • She kicked up some duff and some doty sticks at the edge of the pile and set it afire.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • She kicked up some duff and some doty sticks at the edge of the pile and set it afire.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • 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.

    The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come John Fox 1891

  • Ale mak many a mane to have a doty poll.p.  191, l.

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

  • * The soeaker* of the House of Commons thougnt it hte doty to aonbuncettfc - #eoeipt of my letter, and - it was read from 4fe chair.

    The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ... 1813

  • Lady Sarah, who plainly discerned her mo - ther's anxious curiosity, thought it her doty to keep bcT husband's secrets; and, iraftgio - ing that she knew the whole truth, was not farther alarmed by these hints, nor did they lead her to suspect tbe real state of lh« taiBe.

    Tales of Fashionable Life 1812

  • I hope that each will be preferved in their refpe£tive lines of doty.

    Some Account of the Life and Religious Labours of Sarah Grubb Sarah Grubb 1792

  • Thos the men, whofe doty it was to diffofe knowlege, fpread thick mHfa of error: they who onght to have elevated the mind, made it ftoop trader the yoke of ancient inftitutions.

    The Monthly Review 1791

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  • He has long been a tantric devotee.

    Though white now speckles his goatee

    He’s not grown so dotty

    He cannot be naughty

    For not all his wood has gone doty.

    September 10, 2014