Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Childishly fond; weak; stupid.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Foolish; weak; imbecile.

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  • adjective archaic foolish; weak; imbecile

Etymologies

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dote +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • The government however insists that economic wisdom exists only in the staterooms of the nation and that everyone else is either "dotish" or their views are without merit.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News Selwyn Ryan 2008

  • But he was well requited by Faustus, even with the like payment: for he said to him, "Thou dotish clown, void of all humanity, seeing thou art of so churlish a disposition, I will pay thee as thou hast deserved, for the four wheels of thy waggon thou shalt have taken from thee; let me see then how thou canst shift."

    Mediaeval Tales Henry Morley 1858

  • (Luke 6: 45) But this, notwithstanding all that can be said, seemeth very strange to the carnal world; for they will not be otherwise persuaded, but that they be good deeds that make good men, and evil ones that make evil men: And so by such dotish apprehensions do what in them lieth to fortify their hearts with the mists of darkness against the clear shining of the word, and conviction of the truth.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

  • Even worse, I'm pretty sure there was a child in the front seat of the green monster - usually it's a vapid female - unstrapped and no doubt absorbing every dotish move made by the zombie at the wheel.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News Kim Boodram 2010

  • Even worse, I'm pretty sure there was a child in the front seat of the green monster - usually it's a vapid female - unstrapped and no doubt absorbing every dotish move made by the zombie at the wheel.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News Kim Boodram 2010

  • AskAbout_Yanna hate when people ask me crazy questions when im still sleepy, like you're gonna get a dotish answer >

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 AP 2010

  • He subsequently tried to justify his dotish statement.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News 2010

  • I'm not saying he's wealthy, but if every year you could buy fridge and washing machine, you dotish to go back and put it in the same place.

    TrinidadExpress Today's News Q & A with Nazma Muller 2009

  • When a man start to get dotish behind a woman, they used to say that he drank what he should noint with.

    unknown title 2009

  • When a man start to get dotish behind a woman, they used to say that he drank what he should noint with.

    Barbados Underground 2009

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