Dotty

//ˈdɒti// adj, name, noun, slang

adj, name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A shotgun. Multicultural-London-English

    "Never bummy but I'm scummy fam, I used to burgle houses Then some OGs was consignin me them ounces Wet man round me had me feeling like I’m drownin Fam we really went there with a brownin Me and next man really went there with a dotty 05 murder squad nicked me for a [censored]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile. Australia, British, colloquial

    "My nan has got dottier and dottier since passing the age of eighty."

  2. 2
    Having many dots.

    "Look at the dotty pattern on that cheetah's fur."

  3. 3
    Having an unsteady gait. UK, dated
Adjective
  1. 1
    intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with wordnet
  2. 2
    informal or slang terms for mentally irregular wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy, also spelled Dottie. uncommon

    "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."

Synonyms

All synonyms
abnormalabsurdanomalousaround bendaround the bendbaked

Example

More examples

"It's as plain as the nose on your face that Tom is dotty about Mary."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From dot + -y.

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