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Meanings of dotty in English

Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.

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Intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with.

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Usage of dotty in English
1
Rightly so, too: rarely has Hook been in such entertainingly dotty form.
The Irish Times
2
It used to drive me half dotty trying to think it out.
T. Tembarom
3
It may sound dotty but this was Ireland's answer to Carnaby Street.
The Irish Times
4
You pretend you're dotty, but you know a hawk from a handsaw.
Bryant & may on the loose: a peculiar crimes unit mystery
5
He can manage this bunch of cow-punchers thet are drivin' me dotty.
The Light of the Western Stars
6
I don't know how you fellows feel; but I'm just going dotty.
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
7
My old man's fair dotty on Gladstone and it's his birthday to-morrow.
The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
8
Well, sir, he's a bit dotty about me, as you might say.
Mr. Prohack
9
When asked to explain this dotty theory by broadcaster Neil Mitchell, she couldn't.
News.com.au
10
This dotty explosion is a mere aperitif to Tate Modern's retrospective in April.
The Guardian
11
I guess I am-nearly as dotty as she is about Dyckman.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
12
The old man had certainly gone dotty in his old age.
Salem’s Lot
13
A dotty old maniac who sounded a bit like Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Black house
14
But all summer long, you were completely dotty about it.
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
15
They seemed rather interested in that dotty old professor too.
The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge; Or, The Hermit of Moonligh...
16
He had been mad in that other room, quite dotty.
The Secret City
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