Dotty

Definition: Dotty

Dotty

Adjective

1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.

2. Marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "she was crazy about him"; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Dotty" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a gift from God".

Date "dotty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Synonyms: Dotty

The Dotty World of James Lloyd (1964)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Can't You Sleep, Dotty (reference)

• Dotty (reference)

• Dotty the Dalmatian: Has Epilepsy (reference)

• Dotty the Ladybug Plays Hide and Seek (Baby Bug Books) (reference)

• Happy Birthday, Dotty (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "dotty": be dotty about smb. ♦ dotty on his legs ♦ go dotty. Additional references.

Albanian

Shumë Entuziast, I Rrjedhur (moonstruck), I Mbuluar Me Pika, I Matufosur, I Lëkundur (crazy, Dickey, dicky, hesitant, hesitating, shilly shally, tottering, tottery, undecided, vacillating), I Dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منقط (dappled, dotted, mottled, punctate, speckled, spotted, spotty), ‏مضطرب المشية, ‏مجنون (barmy, bedlam, bonkers, crazy, daft, demented, fool, insane, mad, madcap, maniac, maniacal, nut, off one's nut, out of one's head, out of one's mind, scatty, screwy, tomfool, up the pole), ‏سخيف (absurd, childish, daft, fatuous, foolish, inept, ridiculous, silly, spoony, tomfool). (various references)

Bulgarian 

На Точки (Pinto), �"лупав, Изпъстрен С Точки, Шантав, Смешен, Смахнат (Daffy, Loopy). (various references)

Czech

Teèkovaný (dotted, dotting, flecked, punctate, spotted), Praštìný (Batty, cock eyed, crackers, daft, loony, mad, moonstruck, moony, muddle-headed, nutty, touched). (various references)

Finnish

tärähtänyt (cracked), hassahtava (cracked, not all there, not in his right senses). (various references)

French

Dingue, Toqué, Piqué, Fou. (various references)

German

getüpfelt (freckled, spotted). (various references)

Hebrew 

־שו�'ע. (various references)

Hungarian

Pontokkal Jelölt, Kipontozott, Hülye (blithering, bozo, clot, cretin, dead above the ears, gaga, goofy, goon, half wit, half-wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jake, jay, klutz, moonstruck, moron, moronic, mutt, mutton-head, nerd, nitwit, nurd, nutter, oafish, sap-head, schmo, shmo, silly, stupid, vacuous, wacko, wart). (various references)

Indonesian

terhuyung. (various references)

Italian

Punteggiato (punctated). (various references)

Manx

harrish ny sleityn, breckit (freckled, sprinkled), breck (brindle, brown trout, chequered, dapple-grey, mackerel, mottled, piebald, pied, pocked, speckle; trout-coloured, speckled, spot, spotted, spotty, tartan, trout, variegated). (various references)

Pig Latin

ottyday.(various references)

Portuguese

tonto (crazy, dizzy, dotard, gaby, giddy, light-headed, moony, spellbound, tipsy). (various references)

Romanian

Tâmpit (addle, addle-brained, awfully, blunt, brain-hampered, chucklehead, clod, crass, daft, dense, dim, donkey, duffer, dull, dumb, dumb bell, fiddling, fool, idiot, imbecile, jay, lubber-head, lunkhead, mutt, piffling, pillock, sap, squarehead, stupid, sucker), Slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, silly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), Punctat (dotted), Nãtâng (blockhead, clumsy, dead from the neck, driveller, duffer, dummy, dunce, fat-head, feather-brained, foolish, noddy, silly, tomfool, wet, zombie), Care Se Clatinã (groggy, rocky), Capiu (cracked, dizzy, giddy), Þicnit, Absurd (absurd, absurdity, absurdly, fabulous, foolish, impossible, inept, irrational, ludicrous, mad, mindless, nonsensical, piffling, preposterous, recondite, ridiculous, silly, stupid, temerarious, unreasonable). (various references)

Russian 

Усеянный Точками, � ехнувшийся. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tačkast (dotted, punctate), nesiguran (dickey, dicky, diffident, doubtful, faltering, insecure, precarious, shaky, uncertain, uneasy, unsafe, unsound, unsure, waggly, wildcat, wonky), luckast (anserine, comical, crack-brained, light-headed, silly). (various references)

Spanish

Punteado (dotted, stipple, twang), Chalado (barmy, Batty, bugs, crazy, freak, mad, off his head). (various references)

Swedish

Tokig (barmy, Batty, bonkers, cock eyed, cockeyed, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, fruity, gaga, insane, loony, mad, madcap, moony, nuts, ridiculous, touched, wrong), Prickig (dotted, spotted), Fnoskig (balmy, barmy, silly). (various references)

Turkish

Sapık (aberrant, perverse, pervert, perverted, unnatural, wacky), Noktalı (dotted, punctated, spotted, spotty), Kaçık (a button short, balmy, barmy, Batty, certifiable, crack-brained, cracked, cuckoo, daft, disordered, fantastic, fantastical, fey, ladder, loco, not all there, nut, nutcase, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, pixilated, queer, queer in the head, run, scatty, screwy, wacky, whacky), Benekli (brindled, dappled, dotted, maculated, mottled, piebald, pied, punctate, roan, speckled, splotchy, spotted, spotty), Aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit). (various references)

Ukrainian

Крапчастий, Нетвердий На Ногах. (various references)

Vietnamese 

ngớ ngẩn (anserine, blunder, dumb, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, sap-headed, sappy, sillily, silly), có chấm (macular). (various references)

Misspellings

"Dotty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cotty, detty, ditti, doddy, Doddyda, doity, donty, dooty, dorty, Dortyol, dotey, doti, dotie, dotsy, Dott, dotte, dottie, dotto, Duetti, dutty, Dyott, dyttye, fotty, hotty, Lotty, motty, voty, Wottya. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: doty, tody.

-2 letters: dot, tod, tot, toy, yod.

-3 letters: do, od, oy, to, yo.

+2 letters: dottily, tutoyed.

+3 letters: outstudy.

+4 letters: boycotted, outstayed, rotundity, stolidity, tippytoed, torpidity, torridity, tutoyered, wyandotte.

+5 letters: bayonetted, copycatted, orotundity, outdatedly, prototyped, stenotyped, troglodyte, wyandottes.