[ˈdɒti], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- eccentric or having slightly impaired intellectual functioning
(e.g: her dotty old uncle)

- marked with or in the form of dots; dotted
(e.g: a dotty midi skirt)


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Origin:
late 18th century (in sense dotty): from dot + -y; in sense dotty perhaps from obsolete doty ‘silly, foolish’, from dote