DOTTY

crazy, wild, dotty, gaga

(adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; “crazy about cars and racing”; “they are dotty about each other”; “gaga over the rock group’s new album”

balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky

(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; “it used to drive my husband balmy”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Dotty

(uncommon) A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy, also spelled Dottie.

Etymology 1

Adjective

dotty (comparative dottier, superlative dottiest)

(British, colloquial) Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.

(UK, dated) Having an unsteady gait.

Etymology 2

Adjective

dotty (comparative dottier, superlative dottiest)

Having many dots.

Noun

dotty (plural dotties)

(Multicultural London English) A shotgun.

Source: Wiktionary


Dot"ty, a. [From 2d Dot.]

1. Composed of, or characterized by, dots.

2. [Perh. a different word; cf. Totty.] Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted. [Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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