dotty
adjective/ˈdɒti/
/ˈdɑːti/
(comparative dottier, superlative dottiest)
(British English, old-fashioned, informal)- slightly crazy or silly synonym eccentric
- dotty about somebody/something having romantic feelings for somebody; being enthusiastic about something
- He’s dotty about you.
Word Originlate 19th cent.: perhaps from obsolete dote ‘simpleton, fool’, apparently from Dutch dote ‘folly’.
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