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jotty

jotty adjective: written as, or like, a brief informal sketch.

Adjective

jotty (comparative more jotty, superlative most jotty)

  1. Written as, or like, a brief informal sketch.
    • They […] will be written in a jotty, easy, rattling style.1873, The Living Age, volume 119, page 826
    • The guard at his desk, a short distance down the low corridor, clinked on the blue shaded light of his desk lamp and turned the pages of his log to the jotty description of his only murder.2001, Frank Palescandolo, Son of Murder, Inc., Or, Man in a Cassock, page 3

Forms of jotty

comparativemore jotty
superlativemost jotty

Origin of jotty

From jot + -y.

Questions about jotty

What does jotty mean?
Jotty means written as, or like, a brief informal sketch.
What part of speech is jotty?
Jotty is an adjective.

Words near jotty in the dictionary

  1. jotters
  2. jotting
  3. jotting down
  4. jottings
  5. Jotto
  6. jotty
  7. jotun
  8. Jotunheim
  9. jotunite
  10. jotunn
  11. jotunns

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