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dopey

adj
/ˈdəʊpi/

Etymology

From dope (“stupid person”) + -y.

  1. derived from *daupijaną✻
  2. derived from *daupijan✻
  3. derived from *dōpen✻
  4. derived from dopen
  5. derived from dopen — “to dip”
  6. borrowed from doop — “thick dipping sauce”
  7. suffixed as dopey — “dope + y”

Definitions

  1. Stupid, silly.

    • Some dopey movie actor was standing near us, having a cigarette.
    • We were all convinced there was a poltergeist in David's flat and had the dopey idea of taking it as a present to Jimmy. We “captured'” the ghost in a paper bag […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dopey. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA