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Dotty

adjective

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.

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

Words linked to "Dotty" : colloquialism, nuts, insane, enthusiastic