/ˈdɒti/, /ˈdɑ.ti/, [ˈdɑ.ɾi]
OriginSee dote, or compare totty (“unsteady, dizzy”).
- Australia, British, colloquialMildly 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.”
“"Good God! I don't want another accident here. I should go dotty if I had to face all that again."”
- UK, datedHaving an unsteady gait.
- Having many dots.
“Look at the dotty pattern on that cheetah's fur.”
- Multicultural-London-EnglishA 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 ”
“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 t”
“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”
- uncommonA 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.”
““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 ”
Formsdottier(comparative) · dottiest(superlative) · dotties(plural)
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