Sekirov Dictionary

dottle

/ˈdɒtəl/

noun 5
adjective 1
verb 1
forms 5

noun5

A small rounded lump or mass.
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The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.
- 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." — 1892
A baby's dummy, pacifier.
A plug or tap of a vessel.
(Scotland) A dotard.

adjective1

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(Scotland) Stupid or senile.
- When days and years proclaim you’re old — A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow, Then for support you can lay hold O’ the upright of your umberella. — 1893

verb1

To set pottery flatware horizontally on thimbles.

forms

dottled · dottling · dottles · more dottle · most dottle

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