dottiness

dot·ty (d

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adj. dot·ti·er, dot·ti·est

a. Mentally unbalanced; crazy.

b. Amusingly eccentric or unconventional.

c. Ridiculous or absurd: a dotty scheme.

2. Having a feeble or unsteady gait; shaky.

3. Obsessively infatuated or enamored.

[Probably alteration of Scots dottle, silly, from Middle English doten, to dote.]

dotti·ly adv.

dotti·ness n.

dotty [ˈdɒtɪ]

adj -tier, -tiest

1. Slang chiefly Brit feeble-minded; slightly crazy

2. Brit slang (foll by about) extremely fond (of)

3. marked with dots

[from dot¹: sense development of 1 from meaning of ``unsteady on one's feet'']

dottily adv

dottiness n

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Adj.	1.	dotty - informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, around the bend, balmy, crackers, daft, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, nuts, round the bend, wacky, whacky, nutty, loopy, fruity, barmy, cracked insane - afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter"
	2.	dotty - intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy about cars and racing"; "he is potty about her" gaga, crazy, wild colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech enthusiastic - having or showing great excitement and interest; "enthusiastic crowds filled the streets"; "an enthusiastic response"; "was enthusiastic about taking ballet lessons"

dotty

adjective (Slang, chiefly Brit.) crazy, touched, peculiar, eccentric, batty (slang), off-the-wall (slang), potty (Brit. informal), oddball (informal), loopy (informal), crackpot (informal), out to lunch (informal), out there (slang), outré, doolally (slang), off your trolley (slang), up the pole (informal), wacko or whacko (slang) She was obviously going a bit dotty.

Translations

dotty [ˈdɒtɪ] ADJ (dottier (compar) (dottiest (superl))) (Brit) [person] → chiflado; [idea, scheme] → estrafalario, disparatado
you must be dotty! → ¿estás loco o qué?
it's driving me dotty → esto me trae loco

dotty [ˈdɒti] adj (= daft) [person] → loufoque, farfelu(e)

dotty

adj (+er) (Brit inf) → kauzig, schrullig; to be dotty about somebody/something (= like) → nach jdm/etw verrückt sein

dotty [ˈdɒtɪ] adj (Brit) (fam) (mad) → tocco/a, strambo/a
to be dotty about sth → andare pazzo/a per qc
he's dotty about her → ha completamente perso la testa per lei

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around the bend
balmy
barmy
bats
batty
bonkers
crackers
daft
demented
ditsy
ditzy
dottily
fruity
gaga
kookie
kooky
loco
loony
loopy

IN ALL seriousness it has come to a disturbing stage of dottiness when something as incontrovertibly cut and dried as a photographic image is suddenly thought to be worthy of a debate for days on end.

Surely we all got the picture some time ago by The Racing Post (London, England)

What they had not fully foreseen was the dottiness that was already besetting their own kind.

Changing the guard at Harvard by Gottfried, Paul / National Observer - Australia and World Affairs

Derek Granger in the Financial Times claimed the play belonged to "the school of random dottiness deriving from Beckett and Ionesco".

Fighting talk by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

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