"Dottie" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1991, Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Simon & Schuster, published 1999, page 60",
          "text": "She smells like expensive soap and her teeth are shiny-white. She does not in any way look like her name. It's not her fault that she was born in a time when people believed in names like Wanda, Dottie and Betty. She's more of a Vanessa or Paulina.",
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        "A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy, also spelled Dotty, and sometimes also used as a formal given name."
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          "Dorothy",
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          "Dotty",
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