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Dotty   /dˈɑti/   Listen
Dotty

adjective
1.
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.  Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky.
2.
Intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with.  Synonyms: crazy, gaga, wild.  "He is potty about her"






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"Dotty" Quotes from Famous Books



... adoration. "A fish out o' water ain't a patch to wot I've felt like—Lord, no! Why, sir, it's the first time you've ever been away from me since you took me on; and the dreams I've had is enough to drive a body fair dotty. I've seen parties a-stickin' knives in your back and puttin' poison in your food and doin' the Lord knows wot not to you, sir; and every blessed nerve in my body has been a doin' of a constant shake—like a ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew

... 'Trafalgar,' sir; not the battle, sir, but the horse. I fancy he's dotty, Mr. Cairns; he looks more like a donkey ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin

... really think of us; we innocent!!! At dinner we did not dare look at one another or we should have exploded. Afterwards Hella said to me: "I say, do you know that we have the same name day?" And when I said: "What do you mean, it seems to me you must have gone dotty this morning," she laughed like anything and said: "Don't you see, December 27th, Holy Innocents' Day!" Oh it did tickle me. She knew that date although she's a Protestant because December 27th is Marina's birthday, and in our letters we used to speak ...
— A Young Girl's Diary • An Anonymous Young Girl

... Dotty; and down the attic stairs they flew pell-mell; through the kitchen chamber and the great unfinished chamber, and down the back stairs; through the kitchen and the dining-room, and burst into grandma's ...
— Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad • Various

... (these children never did anything they were told): she said, quite loud, "Of course not! Everybody knows what Dotty wants!" ...
— Sylvie and Bruno • Lewis Carroll

... said. It's a bore that we shall be too old to play next year. I told the Demon that if we had to be beaten, I would sooner take a licking from Damer's than any other house; and he told me that he believed I wanted 'em to win. When a fellow's in that sort of blind rage, I call him dotty, ...
— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell

... positive adoration. "A fish out o' water ain't a patch to wot I've felt like—Lord, no! Why, sir, it's the first time you've ever been away from me since you took me on; and the dreams I've had is enough to drive a body fair dotty. I've seen parties a-stickin' knives in your back and puttin' poison in your food and doin' the Lord knows wot not to you, sir; and every blessed nerve in my body has been a doin' of a constant shake—like a ...
— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew

... sense of "oils are spotty"; I know the height of Siniolchum's peak; I know that some may think my ditty dotty; But I cannot tell a ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 17, 1920 • Various



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