jotty

English

Etymology

jot +‎ -y

Adjective

jotty (comparative more jotty, superlative most jotty)

  1. Written as, or like, a brief informal sketch.
    • 1873, The Living Age, volume 119, page 826:
      They […] will be written in a jotty, easy, rattling style.
    • 2001, Frank Palescandolo, Son of Murder, Inc., Or, Man in a Cassock, page 3:
      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.
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