doughty
adjEtymology
The adjective is derived from Middle English doughty (“brave, bold, valiant”), from Old English dohtiġ, dyhtiġ (“competent, good, strong, valiant”), from Proto-West Germanic *duhtīg. The English word may be analysed as dought + -y, and is cognate with Danish dygtig (“virtuous, proficient”), Dutch duchtig (“severe, strict”), German tüchtig (“capable, competent, efficient; big; hard”), Icelandic dygðugur (“virtuous, stable”), Scots douchty, douchtie (“bold, valiant”), Swedish duktig (“efficient; good; capable, clever, smart”). The noun is derived from the adjective.
Definitions
Bold
Bold; brave, courageous.
- Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.
A person who is bold or brave.
A surname transferred from the nickname.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at doughty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at doughty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at doughty
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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