dotty
mentally unbalanced, crazy (person)
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"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)
(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
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
