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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



... may have happened—anything, in fact; More than in any March that I have met (Last year excepted) fearful nerves are racked; Anarchy does with Russia what it likes; Paris is put conundrums very knotty; And here in England, with its talk of strikes, Men, like your own March hares, seem going dotty. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156., March 5, 1919 • Various

... "I like the Dotty Dimple books," finally admitted Girlie. "Mamma read me all of them and several of the Prudy books, and I have read half of 'Flaxie Frizzle' my ...
— The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor • Annie Fellows Johnston

... Prudy's Flyaway Series. By the author of "Dotty Dimple Stories," and "Little Prudy Stories." Complete in six volumes. Illustrated. Per ...
— The Yacht Club - or The Young Boat-Builder • Oliver Optic

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

... Old Antic, seems utterly frantic, absurdly romantic and maundering; And Cool Common Sense has gone dotty and dense, in dim deserts of Sentiment wandering. Now Reason and Right, hydrocephalous quite, are both Della-Cruscan and drivelling, Life (barring the fun) like "The Mulberry One," seems a mixture of diddling and snivelling. There's LAWSON who jaws on the Abstinence Cause ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 23, 1891 • Various


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