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dotty¹

  • /ˈdɒti/
  • /ˈdɑ.ti/ Canada, US
  • [ˈdɑ.ɾi] Canada, US

Rhymes with -ɒti

Where it comes from

See dote, or compare totty (“unsteady, dizzy”).

adjective dottier · dottiest

  1. Australia, UK, colloquial Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile. My nan has got dottier and dottier since passing the age of eighty.
  2. UK, dated Having an unsteady gait.

dotty²

  • /ˈdɒti/
  • /ˈdɑ.ti/ Canada, US
  • [ˈdɑ.ɾi] Canada, US

Rhymes with -ɒti

adjective dottier · dottiest

  1. Having many dots. Look at the dotty pattern on that cheetah's fur.

noun dotties

  1. Multicultural London English 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]

Dotty³

proper noun

  1. uncommon 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.

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adj mildly insane

Русскийчудакова́тый čudakovátyj

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@misc{dotty_2026,
  title = {dotty},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dotty},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}