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blotty

blotty adjective: characterised or ridden with blots or blemishes.

Adjective

blotty (comparative blottier, superlative blottiest)

  1. Characterised or ridden with blots or blemishes.
    • ...the vowels were all alike and the consonants only distinguishable as turning up or down, the strokes had a blotty solidity and the letters disdained to keep the line.1993, Leland Monk, Standard Deviations: Chance and the Modern British Novel, page 64

Forms of blotty

comparativeblottier
superlativeblottiest

Origin of blotty

From blot + -y.

Words that rhyme with blotty

7 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about blotty

What does blotty mean?
Blotty means characterised or ridden with blots or blemishes.
What part of speech is blotty?
Blotty is an adjective.

Words near blotty in the dictionary

  1. blotto boxes
  2. blottoed
  3. blottoes
  4. blottoing
  5. blottos
  6. blotty
  7. bloubok
  8. bloud
  9. bloud-hound
  10. bloude
  11. blouded

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