dotty
/ˈdɒti/US/ˈdɑ.ti/
dotty adjective: mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
Adjective (1)
dotty (comparative dottier, superlative dottiest)
- 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
- Having an unsteady gait.
Adjective (2)
dotty (comparative dottier, superlative dottiest)
- Having many dots.
- Look at the dotty pattern on that cheetah's fur.
Noun
dotty (plural dotties)
- 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 there with a dotty
05 murder squad nicked me for a [censored]2013, “Mad Years”, in Potter Payper (lyrics), Training Day, performed by Potter Payper - 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
Yard man’s got a dotty in the rave
But he’s still tryna do the La Linga
We’ve...2017, “Mad About Bars”, TMula (lyrics), performed by 86 (TMula x Scrams)
- Never bummy but I'm scummy fam, I used to burgle houses
Proper noun capitalized: Dotty
Dotty
- A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy, also spelled Dottie.
- If you really believed and if you waited ever so quietly, you would see Dotty the witch pottering around in her kitchen or picking herbs to put in her potato stew.2013, D. Vanstone, Dotty and the Fix-it-Cats, →ISBN, page 7
- “It's Dotty!” As if there were only one Dotty in the world. “Dotty who?” a voice asked from behind the door. “Why, Dotty Fickett!” she replied. The door opened and a woman stood there, her face gaunt and filled with sadness. “Mrs. Doherty?”2015, Constance C. Greene, Dotty's Suitcase, Open Road Media, →ISBN
dotty meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
dotty in Urdu
- خال خال, مجنوں, مخبوط, سودائی
dotty in Malayalam
- mad, mentally ill, insane
- വട്ടുപിടിച്ച, ഭ്രാന്തുള്ള, ഭ്രാന്ത, ദൃപ്ര, ദൃപ്ത, ഭൗത
Examples of dotty in a sentence
- I should go dotty if I had to face all that again."1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 152:
- Fox stopped digging and stared at Badger as though he had gone completely dotty.1970, Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 45:
Forms of dotty
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | dottier |
| superlative | dottiest |
| Noun | |
| plural | dotties |
Origin of dotty
See dote, or compare totty (“unsteady, dizzy”).
From dot + -y.
Words formed from dotty
Words that rhyme with dotty
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Questions about dotty
- What does dotty mean?
- Dotty means mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
- What is dotty in Urdu?
- Dotty in Urdu is خال خال, مجنوں, مخبوط. See Dotty meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use dotty in a sentence?
- I should go dotty if I had to face all that again."
- What part of speech is dotty?
- Dotty can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce dotty?
- Dotty is pronounced /ˈdɒti/.
Words near dotty in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dotty (page history and authors); Dotty (page history and authors); dotty (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dotty (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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