adj
Meaning 1
Stupid or senile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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Standard Lemma guide
dottle
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈdɒtəl/
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rhymes with -ɒtəl
noun
Meaning 2
A plug or tap of a vessel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A small rounded lump or mass.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1892, Richard Oliver Heslop, Northumberland Words. English Dialect Society - Kegan Paul et al. In refilling a pipe, where twist is smoked, a common practice is to save the dottle and put it on the top of the new-filled pipe. "Aw like a baccy dottle to leet wiv."
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noun
Meaning 5
A baby's dummy, pacifier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Geordie
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noun
Meaning 6
A dotard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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verb
Meaning 7
To set pottery flatware horizontally on thimbles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 8
the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: residue
History
Etymology
Related to dote, dotard.
From Middle English dottel, dottelle (“a plug or tap of a vessel”), a diminutive of Old English dott (> English dot (“a point”)), equivalent to dot + -le. Related to Old English dyttan (“to stop up, clot”), Dutch dot (“a knot, lump, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”). More at dit.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: piipunperskat — still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe
- German: Tabakrest — still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe
- Irish: cnámhóg thobac — still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe
- Irish: gríodán tobac — still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe
- Romanian: șanț — still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe