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doby

doby is the alternative form of dhobi.

Meaning of dhobi

Noun

dhobi (plural dhobis)

  1. (South-Asia) A laundryman or washerman, or laundrywoman or washerwoman.
    • ... "The first dhobi khana was under the Madras Presidency...”2003, https://web.archive.org/web/20050508060337/http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2003/07/07/stories/2003070700750100.htm The 'dhobi khana' at Fort Kochi was once throbbing with activity. […]

Proper noun capitalized: Doby

Doby (plural Dobys)

  1. A surname.

Forms of doby

Noun
pluraldobies
Proper noun
pluralDobys

Questions about doby

What does doby mean?
Doby means a surname.
What is doby the alternative form of?
Doby is the alternative form of dhobi.
What part of speech is doby?
Doby is a proper noun.

Words near doby in the dictionary

  1. dobund
  2. dobunds
  3. dobupride
  4. dobutamine
  5. Dobwalls
  6. doby
  7. Dobyns
  8. Dobynses
  9. Dobys
  10. Dobzhanskian
  11. Dobzhanskyan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doby (page history and authors); Doby (page history and authors); dhobi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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