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Dotty

adjective

Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular. Synonyms: around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, fruity, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky.

Intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with. Synonyms: crazy, gaga, wild. "He is potty about her"

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"Dotty" Quotes from Famous Books

... the fixings, one set filled with troops and the other empty. On these latter shells were bursting, but there was no sign of life in them. In the other lines there seemed the better part of two brigades, and the first trench was stiff with bayonets. My first thought was that Home Forces had gone dotty, for this kind of show could have no sort of training value. And then I saw other things—cameras and camera-men on platforms on the flanks, and men with megaphones behind them on wooden scaffoldings. One of the megaphones was going ...

— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan

... was left me was pretty near all in, and it was either up to me to get married, get a job on one of the roofs or catch a live one, and I thought the best of all the evils was to catch the aforementioned live one. I am not one of these Janes that goes dotty over the pit-i-pats, and though I always sit up until The Morning Telegraph comes out on the street, the racing news is not the ...

— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey

... you cur, I could come near licking you with only one leg. But if you touch me again I'll brain you!... You never were any good. You're no good now. You never will be anything but Buster Jack—half dotty, selfish as hell, bull-headed and mean!... And that's the last word I'll ...

— The Mysterious Rider • Zane Grey

Words linked to "Dotty" : insane, enthusiastic, colloquialism