📚 Doughty, adjective. 🔉 /ˈdaʊti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (archaic, humorous): Brave and persistent. ❗️ Examples: 1. His doughty spirit kept him going. 2. Then along came a doughty and persistent conservationist who fought to save the city's history: just what the doctor ordered. 3. This way, the organization could live up to its self-professed image: the doughty defenders of brave iconoclasts bucking the establishment. 4. London metropolitan types also think I possess a kind of doughty flinty independent spirit which they wish they had so they too could flee the bars of Charlotte Street and the watering holes of Soho. 5. In Britain, the doughty, campaigning spirit of Greenham Common and Faslane has yet to be heard. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic