Definition of "dopy" [dopy]

• Slang Variant of dopey. (adjective)

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• "There had already been half a dozen casualties -- no deaths but bites and slashings, almost all from the little carnivores contemptuously known as dopy joes."
• "Chloral, veronal, etc., only made him "dopy," irritable and depressed, but did not give him one hour of sound sleep."
• "Well, he got worse and worse, and sometimes when I went there he didn't know me, being out of his head or kind of dopy with the doctor's stuff, the shadow being over him, as Irish people say."