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Dotty

adjective

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.

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

Words linked to "Dotty" : insane, enthusiastic, colloquialism