Dottle

//ˈdɒtəl// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Stupid or senile. Scotland

    "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."

Noun
  1. 1
    A plug or tap of a vessel.
  2. 2
    A dotard. Scotland
  3. 3
    the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking wordnet
  4. 4
    A small rounded lump or mass.
  5. 5
    The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.

    "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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  1. 6
    A baby's dummy, pacifier. Geordie
Verb
  1. 1
    To set pottery flatware horizontally on thimbles.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

Related to dote, dotard.

Etymology 4

Related to dote, dotard.

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