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Examples
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I 'spec' I been shut up her so long I'se gittin 'doaty.
Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902
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You must have been a doaty, miss Douce made answer.
Ulysses 2003
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-- You must have been a doaty, miss Douce made answer.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
brtom commented on the word doaty
-- Well now, I am, he mused. I looked so simple in the cradle they christened me simple Simon.
-- You must have been a doaty, Miss Douce made answer.
Joyce, Ulysses, 11
... probably a variant of dotty?
January 7, 2007