dopey
adj/ˈdəʊpi/
Etymology From dope (“stupid person”) + -y.
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Stupid, silly.
- Some dopey movie actor was standing near us, having a cigarette.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 164:
- We were all convinced there was a poltergeist in David's flat and had the dopey idea of taking it as a present to Jimmy. We “captured'” the ghost in a paper bag […]2010, Nicky Haslam, Redeeming Features, page 211:
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- Your prose is dopey / Think you should only / Write in emoji2014, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Word Crimes”:
- Derived terms
- dopiness