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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dotty \Dot"ty\, adjective [From 2d {Dot}.]
1. Composed of, or characterized by, dots. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. [Perh. a different word; cf. {Totty}.] Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted. [Eng.] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dotty
adjective
1: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats}, {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked}, {crackers}, {daft}, {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky}, {kookie}, {loco}, {loony}, {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {round the bend}, {around the bend}, {wacky}, {whacky}]
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" [syn: {crazy}, {gaga}, {enamored}, {infatuated}, {in love}, {smitten}, {soft on(p)}, {taken with(p)}] [also: {dottiest}, {dottier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "dotty": abnormal, absurd, anomalous, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, besotted, bespangled, blotched, blotchy, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, crackers, crank, crankish, cranky, crazy, crotchety, cuckoo, daffy, deviant, deviative, different, dippy, divergent, dotted, eccentric, enamored, erratic, exceptional, fantastic, fey, flaky, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, flipped, freaked-out, freakish, frecked, freckled, freckly, fruitcakey, fruity, funny, gaga, goofy, haywire, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, infatuate, insane, irregular, just plain nuts, kinky, kooky, loony, loopy, macular, maculate, maculated, maggoty, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, patchy, peculiar, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, potty, preposterous, punctated, queer, quirky, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, singular, slaphappy, spangled, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, strange, studded, twisted, unconventional, unnatural, wacky, whimsical
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