doty
English
Adjective
doty (comparative dotier, superlative dotiest)
- (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.
- 1903, John Fox Jr., The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
- (US, dialectal, of a person) Senile; in one's dotage
Alternative forms
- (suffering from rot): doaty, dotey
Derived terms
- dotiness
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