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jotty en · ADJ

Etymology

From jot + -y.

Meanings

1. Written as, or like, a brief informal sketch.
   • They […] will be written in a jotty, easy, rattling style. 1873, The Living Age, volume 119, page 826:
   • The guard at his desk, a short distance down the low corridor, clinked on the blue shaded light of his desk lamp and turned the pages of his log to the jotty description of his only murder. 2001, Frank Palescandolo, Son of Murder, Inc., Or, Man in a Cassock, page 3:

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