dottle

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɒtəl/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A plug or tap of a vessel.
  2. A dotard. Scotland
  3. A small rounded lump or mass.
  4. 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."
  5. A baby's dummy, pacifier. Geordie
动词 v.
  1. To set pottery flatware horizontally on thimbles.
形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

dottles plural dottel alternative dottles present,singular,third-person dottling participle,present dottled participle,past dottled past dottel alternative more dottle comparative most dottle superlative dottles plural

词源

词源 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.
词源 2
Related to dote, dotard.
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