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dottle

noun
/ˈdɒtəl/UK

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from dott
  2. inherited from dottel

Definitions

  1. A plug or tap of a vessel.

  2. A small rounded lump or mass.

  3. The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.

    • one hand guards the burning dottle of my pipe from the force of the wind
    • 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.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A baby's dummy, pacifier.

    2. To set pottery flatware horizontally on thimbles.

    3. 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.

    4. A dotard.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dottle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA