Dottle Definition

dŏtl
noun
The tobacco residue left in a pipe after it has been smoked.
Webster's New World

A plug or tap of a vessel.

Wiktionary

A small rounded lump or mass.

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(Geordie) A baby's dummy, pacifier.

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Other Word Forms of Dottle

Noun

Singular:
dottle
Plural:
dottles

Origin of Dottle

  • 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.

    From Wiktionary

  • From dot lump (obsolete)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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