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English : variant spelling of Doughty.
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English and Scottish : variant spelling of Doughty.
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English : probably an early variant of Doughty.Edward Doty (c.1600–55) was one of the passengers on the Mayflower, a servant of Stephen Hopkins. He became comparatively wealthy and moved to Duxbury MA, where he left nine children.
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English and Scottish (also established in Ireland, especially Dublin) : nickname for a powerful or brave man, especially a champion jouster, from Middle English doughty, Old English dohtig, dyhtig ‘valiant’, ‘strong’.
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English : variant spelling of Doughty.
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English : nickname for someone with beautiful long hair, from Middle English fair feax ‘beautiful tresses’. This was a common descriptive phrase in Middle English; the alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight refers to ‘fair fanning fax’ encircling the shoulders of the doughty warrior.Thomas Fairfax (1693–1781), an army officer from Leeds Castle, Kent, England, first came to VA in 1735 and settled on maternal estates there as a proprietor in 1747.
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English : from Middle English dregh, probably as a nickname from any of its several senses: ‘lasting’, ‘patient’, ‘slow’, ‘tedious’, ‘doughty’. Alternatively, in some cases, the name may derive from Old English dr̄ge ‘dry’, ‘withered’, also applied as a nickname.
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Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero.
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The quality of being doughty; valor; bravery.
adv.
In a doughty manner.