dotty
Having many dots.
Adjective Australia, UK
- Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
- My nan has got dottier and dottier since passing the age of eighty.
- Knockers in this part of the world seem intended for ornament only, — nobody seems to pay any attention to them when they’re used. The old lady upstairs must be either deaf or dotty. - 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- "Good God! I don't want another accident here. I should go dotty if I had to face all that again." - 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 152:
- Having an unsteady gait.
Origin
See dote, or compare totty (“unsteady, dizzy”).
Forms
Derived
Adjective Entry 2
- Having many dots.
- Look at the dotty pattern on that cheetah's fur.
Origin
Etymology tree English dot Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English dotty From dot + -y.
Forms
Noun
- A shotgun.
- Never bummy but I'm scummy fam, I used to burgle houses Then some OGs was consignin me them ounces Wet man round me had me feeling like I’m drownin Fam we really went there with a brownin Me and next man really went...
- They dont know what I’ve been through Red dot on his head like a hindu Scrams, Face just stack for the Wesson Ca’ be the gunplay that we’re into It’s like them man chill with the singer Two dot dots there in the dinger...
- Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody Hold that properly when I bang that dotty I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby - 2017, “Next Up?”,...