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adjective

Dotty adj.

Composed of, or characterized by, dots.

Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted. (Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Dotty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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