doty

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