dooty
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[edit]Noun
[edit]dooty (countable and uncountable, plural dooties)
- Alternative spelling of doody (“excrement”)
- (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.