Meaning

1 senses

  1. A common New Zealand fish, Notolabrus celidotus

    I went fishing today and all I caught were spotties.

Examples

5 sentences

  1. Service was spotty in the area.

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  2. Dalmatians are regarded as being highly spotty dogs.

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  3. Cell coverage is pretty spotty where I live.

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  4. The wifi connection was spotty at times and the parking was limited.

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  5. We're no longer interested in doing business with you. The quality of your product has been... spotty, to say the least.

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Origin

From Middle English spotty, equivalent to spot + -y.

From Middle English spotty, equivalent to spot + -y.

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Forms

plural: spotties
Singularspotty
Pluralspotties

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivedspottiness

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
spotA1spotlessspotlightspousespout

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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