dottle
IPA: dˈɑtʌɫ
noun
- A plug or tap of a vessel.
- A small rounded lump or mass.
- The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.
- (Tyneside) A baby's dummy, pacifier.
- (Scotland) A dotard.
adjective
- (Scotland) Stupid or senile.
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Examples of "dottle" in Sentences
- She poked at the dottle in her pipe with a small silver-plated knife.
- In the subsequent smokes the ashes, "dottle," were saved, being placed in
- He turned it over and knocked the dottle neatly out against the edge of the porch.
- He knocked the dottle out of his pipe, blew through the stem, and stuck it back in his pocket.
- Both shoes froze for fully half an instant, then leaped up and turned over to dump out the dottle.
- He jumped to his feet and circled his chair, ending up back at the fireplace, where he leant down to smack his pipe against the bricks and send the still-alight dottle spraying onto the coal and the hearth.
- He had attempted to cut the Gordian knot by giving up the cleaning of his pipe, but this had resulted in the inhalation of indescribably repellent, ferociously bitter, and appallingly slimy gobbets of cold dottle.
- Senator Lieberman is a voice of reason in all of this; and, that he does not agree with every tit and dottle of the anti-war progressive element now rightly or wrongly on the ascendent in the democrat party should not be used to deny him reelection.
- Of the few souvenirs of her father, dug from the ruins, there remained his pipe, and this she stuck between her teeth as he had done, inhaling the faded traces of tarry dottle, and impressing the stem with the indentations of her own teeth over the marks of his.
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