Having the quality or appearance of daddock; rotten, decayed, or easily crumbling.
Derived from 'daddock' with the addition of the '-y' adjective-forming suffix, which transforms nouns into descriptive words, following the productive English pattern of 'rock' → 'rocky' and 'luck' → 'lucky.'
The '-y' suffix is one of English's oldest word-creation tools—it goes back to Proto-Germanic and is found in hundreds of everyday adjectives, making it one of the most economical ways to expand descriptive vocabulary.
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