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doughty
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Wikipedia
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Doughty is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Al Doughty (born 1966), musician and bassist Andrew Doughty (1916–2013), British anaesthetist Anthony Doughty (20th century), British musician Arthur Doughty (1860-1936), Canadian civil servant ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English dohtig "competent, good, valiant," from dyhtig "strong," related to dugan "to be fit, be able, be strong," and influenced by its past participle, dohte .\n \nAll from Proto-Germanic *duhtiz- (cognates: Middle High German tühtec , German tüchtig ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 brave; bold; courageous; valiant; intrepid; stouthearted; fearless. 2 hardy; strenuous; dauntless; resolute.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a doughty fighter EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But it seemed to Thomas that she was too doughty for him, somehow, and the hat finished it. ▪ In committee she was a doughty and sometimes intimidating fighter. ▪ Our doughty ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doughty \Dough"ty\ (dou"t[y^]), a. [Compar. Doughtier (dou"t[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Doughtiest .] [OE. duhti, dohti, douhti, brave, valiant, fit, useful, AS. dyhtig; akin to G. t["u]chtig, Dan. dygtig, Sw. dygdig virtuous, and fr. AS. dugan to avail, be of ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resolute and without fear [syn: fearless , hardy ] [also: doughtiest , doughtier ]
Usage examples of doughty.
Shorn rhinos, giant squirrels, dementia horrors, great cats, doughty dwarfs, and enormous serpents all made their way toward a distant foe.
And with the doughty viking, His twelve best champions start, And in the air sharp striking, They brandish sword and dart.
Bearing dwellings, and they gave us of their folk eight doughty women and two light-foot lads, and so we were twenty and one in all.
The Jews and Metics proved doughty allies, marshaled soldiers of their own and turned all their small metal shops and foundries into armaments factories.
Abdullah de Baza, for not only was the man a proven and doughty warrior, a born leader of men, and a pious Christian of well-proven loyalties, but he had had the invaluable experience of large-scale slaving on the Rio Kongo, was levelheaded, and rational, and possessed a turn of mind that had allowed him to turn disadvantages into very distinct advantages in both military and business senses, over the years of his life in the New World.
You are aware of the reasons, the many, why a courageous young woman requires of high heaven, far more than the commendably timid, a doughty husband.
And, shortly of this story for to treat, So doughty was her husband and eke she, That they conquered many regnes great In th'Orient, with many a fair city Appertinent unto the majesty Of Rome, and with strong hande held them fast, Nor ever might their foemen do* them flee, *make Aye while that Odenatus' dayes last'.
For whylome he had bene a doughty Knight,As any one, that liued in his daies,And proued oft in many perillous fight,Of which he grace and glory wonne alwaies,And in all battels bore away the baies.
Enformed whan the kyng was of that knyght, And hath conceyved in his wit aright The manere and the forme of al this thyng, Thus glad and blithe this noble doughty kyng Repeireth to his revel as biforn, The brydel is unto the tour yborn, And kept among hise jueles, leeve and deere.
It must have enraged the doughty Captain, lying thus helpless, to see his enemies triumph, the most factious of the disturbers in the colony in charge of affairs, and become his accusers.
But they always parted with an increased regard for one another, and each desired no doughtier comrade when it was necessary to voyage for a little past the emotions.
Tell me, hast thou ever seen any fairer or doughtier than this youngling?
But they always parted with an increased regard for one another, and each desired no doughtier comrade when it was necessary to voyage for a little past the emotions.
He had ceased to rehearse the speech a doughtier Baird would now have been hearing.
He is, in very truth, the doughtiest champion in all this fair country, matchless at any and every weapon, ahorse or a-foot, in sooth a very Ajax, Achilles, Hector, Roland and Oliver together and at once, one and indivisible, aye--by Cupid a very paladin!