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
Dotty
(uncommon) A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy, also spelled Dottie.
dotty (comparative dottier, superlative dottiest)
(British, colloquial) Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
(UK, dated) Having an unsteady gait.
dotty (comparative dottier, superlative dottiest)
Having many dots.
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
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
