doty

From dote + -y.

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

• (suffering from rot): doaty, dotey

• dotiness

• dotty
• doty in the Dictionary of American Regional English

• tody