dooty

English

Noun

dooty (countable and uncountable, plural dooties)

1. Alternative spelling of doody (“excrement”)
2. (dated) Eye dialect spelling of duty.
   • 1861, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 42, April, 1861‎^[1]:

     Glad to see you back at the post of dooty.

   • 1907, Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery‎^[2]:

     When we gets back to the old Laughing Lass, then we drops back into our dooty again all right and proper.

   • 1910, Horatio Alger, Jr., Jack's Ward‎^[3]:

     It's your dooty to do just as she tells you, and you'll do right.