dotty


mentally unbalanced, crazy (person)

TRANSLATION

dotty = schrullig, übergeschnappt, verrückt, verstreut (also = punktiert, getüpfelt)

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

"Woodward and Holm play Martha and Abbey, the dotty old sisters who serve elderberry wine laced with poison to unsuspecting tea-time visitors, then bury the bodies in their basement."

(Robert Osborne - Baldwin serves up his staged readings with taste of 'Arsenic', Hollywood Reporter, Nov 1, 2000)

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dotty

Etymology: alteration of Scots dottle fool, from Middle English dotel, from doten

Date: 15th century

a. Mentally unbalanced; crazy.
b. Amusingly eccentric or unconventional.
c. Ridiculous or absurd: a dotty scheme.


The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Synonyms:
balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daft, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky

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