dottle
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdɒtəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒtəl
Etymology 1
[edit]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.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]dottle (plural dottles)
- A plug or tap of a vessel.
- A small rounded lump or mass.
- 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."
- 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 96:
- one hand guards the burning dottle of my pipe from the force of the wind
- 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 38:
- I clenched my pipe in my right fist and poked at the dottle busily with various fingers, first one then another, of my left hand.
- 1984, Alan Dean Foster, The Hour of the Gate, page 89:
- He tapped out the dottle on the deck, locked the steering oar in position, and commenced repacking his pipe.
- 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles:
- I fiddle and scrape and poke for a while, banging out the dottle from my previous pipeful into an ashtray and puffing down the stem like a horn player warming up his trumpet.
- 1892, Richard Oliver Heslop, Northumberland Words. English Dialect Society - Kegan Paul et al.
- (Geordie) A baby's dummy, pacifier.
Translations
[edit]still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe
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References
[edit]- Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “dottle”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
- Frank Graham, editor (1987), “DOTTLE”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dottle (comparative more dottle, superlative most dottle)
- (Scotland) Stupid or senile.
- 1893, David Herschell Edwards, One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, volume 15, page 403:
- 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
[edit]dottle (plural dottles)
Synonyms
[edit]- dodipole, dotel; see also Thesaurus:dotard
Anagrams
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