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dotty

adj
/ˈdɒti//ˈdɑ.ti/CA

Etymology

See dote, or compare totty (“unsteady, dizzy”).

  1. inherited from *duttaz✻ — “wisp”
  2. inherited from *dott✻
  3. inherited from dott — “a dot, point”
  4. inherited from *dot✻
  5. suffixed as dotty — “dot + y”

Definitions

  1. Mildly insane or eccentric

    Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.

    • My nan has got dottier and dottier since passing the age of eighty.
    • Knockers in this part of the world seem intended for ornament only, — nobody seems to pay any attention to them when they’re used. The old lady upstairs must be either deaf or dotty.
    • "Good God! I don't want another accident here. I should go dotty if I had to face all that again."

  2. Having an unsteady gait.

  3. Having many dots.

    • Look at the dotty pattern on that cheetah's fur.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A shotgun.

      • Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody Hold that properly when I bang that dotty I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby

    2. A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy, also spelled Dottie.

      • If you really believed and if you waited ever so quietly, you would see Dotty the witch pottering around in her kitchen or picking herbs to put in her potato stew.

The neighborhood

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