dory
pronunciation
How to pronounce dory in British English:
UK [ˈdɔ:ri]
How to pronounce dory in American English:
US [ˈdɔri, ˈdori]
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- Noun:
- a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled
- marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
Word Origin
- dory (n.1)
- "small, flat-bottomed boat," 1709, American English, perhaps from a West Indian or Central American Indian language.
- dory (n.2)
- type of edible fish, mid-15c., from Old French doree, originally the fem. past participle of dorer "to gild," from Latin deauratus, past participle of deaurare, from de-, here probably intensive, + aurare "to gild," from aurum (see aureate). So called in reference to its colorings.
Example
- 1. I tell myself , like dory in finding nemo .
- 2. Dory burke : are you going to die like my dad ?
- 3. For the time being , of course , he was pretending that everything was hunky dory .
- 4. He manages a desperate escape in a boat no larger than a dory and is picked up by a portuguese freighter bound for brazil .
- 5. High school student dory bennett says she thinks spending cuts are needed to keep the economy growing and keep the american dream alive .