# robotty
## English
### Etymology

From robot +‎ -y.

### Adjective

robotty (comparative more robotty, superlative most robotty)
* Resembling or characteristic of a robot.
** 1988 April, “Side Arms”, in Sinclair User, number 73, London: EMAP Publications Ltd., →ISSN, page 84:Viewed from the side, you play a robotty chappy who has to fly left to right generally shooting anything that creeps menacingly into view. […] Your large robotty person can turn to shoot these spots on the orifice of nastykind, but you must beware the nasties coming from both directions at once.
** 1992 March, Steve Jarratt, “Smash T.V.”, in Total!, number 3, Bath, Avon: Future Publishing, →ISSN, page 23:As well as a cast of thousands, Smash TV also throws some heavyweight hardware at it’s contestants in the shape of snipers, shrapnel-bombs, robotty-type monsters and end-of-level guardians.
** 1996 December 24, Terry Pratchett, “FTB”, in Priscilla Olson, Sheila M. Perry, editors, Once More* with Footnotes, Framingham, Mass.: The NESFA Press, published 2004 September, →ISBN, pages 76–77:What do most of your customers ask for, then? / Father Christmas looked sadly at his sack. “Computers,” he said. “Mobile phones. Robot animals. Plastic wizards. And other sorts of robotty things that look like American footballers who’ve been punched through a Volkswagen. Things that go beep and need batteries,” he added sourly. “Not the kind of things I used to bring. It used to be dolls and train sets.”
** 2002, Rita Carter, “[The Conscious Body] What Do Robots Think About?”, in Exploring Consciousness, Berkeley, Calif., Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 182:So in that sense (which is surely the most important sense) an artificial consciousness would be ‘like’ the consciousness which arises in biological organisms. It might not want the same things as us but it would want the robotty equivalent (metal polish? Damp-Start?) and the wanting bit would be like our wanting.
** 2009, Neale Osborne, “Peaches and Cream”, in Lydia’s Tin Lid Drum, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 36:‘Who is she think she is?’ Mater D sneered. ‘Her robotty bossy guards, skewers-is-meez an’ limo cars.’
** 2014, Mitch Benn, Terra’s World, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 12:But sci-fi, good old spaceshippy, lasery, robotty distant planets and/or distant future capital S capital F – nobody seemed to want that any more.
** 2015, Jim Smith, Future Ratboy and the Attack of the Killer Robot Grannies, London: Jelly Pie, Egmont UK Ltd, →ISBN, page 36:‘HELLO DEAR,’ bleeped a familiar robotty voice, and I turned round to see MAVIS 3000 standing there with another robot granny.
** 2015, Cherie M Hudson, Unforgettable: Always 2, Sydney, N.S.W.: Momentum, Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd, →ISBN, page 130:They both looked up at me, Tanner waving Optimus at me in a robotty goodbye, Amanda watching me with eyes that swam with tears and hope and fear.
** 2016, Jenny T. Colgan, chapter 1, in In the Blood (Doctor Who), London: BBC Books, published 2017, →ISBN, page 6:‘[…] I was having a massage by this robot, and it was dead good, and normally in spas you tip the staff so I thought maybe I should tip it, and there was a slot, and…’ / ‘You put your credit card in it?’ / ‘It had very powerful and firm robotty fingers!’