Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The plug of tobacco ash left in the bowl of a pipe after it has been smoked.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A plug or tap of a vessel.
- n. A small rounded lump or mass; especially, the tobacco remaining in the bottom of a pipe after smoking, which is often put on the top of fresh tobacco when refilling.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking
Etymologies
- Probably from Middle English dottle or dottel, diminutives of dot ("lump or clot"), formed with -le. (Wiktionary)
- From dot1, lump (obsolete). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In the subsequent smokes the ashes, "dottle," were saved, being placed in”
“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.”
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“Both shoes froze for fully half an instant, then leaped up and turned over to dump out the dottle.”
“He turned it over and knocked the dottle neatly out against the edge of the porch.”
“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.”
“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.”
“She poked at the dottle in her pipe with a small silver-plated knife.”
“He knocked the dottle out of his pipe, blew through the stem, and stuck it back in his pocket.”
“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.”
“No sign of a stair, flowing or otherwise," Sam remarked, knocking dottle from his boots.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dottle’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Words of the day
The list of Wordnik words of the day.
panurgic, chapfallen, billingsgate, latration, witticaster, slitheroo, rux, crotchet, mirliton, arenose, ruelle, jane-of-apes and 76 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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Resource
katabatic, clerestory, haslet, alpenglow, purl, scumble, jessant, spavined, wayworn, creach, dottle, solferino and 165 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Wordnik Notebooks
All the words from the cover of the Wordnik notebook.
A few words appear twice: frass, cruet, luna, thalweg, and possibly some more.
Careful: Contains spoilers!spilth, frass, fomite, rux, worricow, alizarin, mundungus, parthenocarpy, jib, whinyard, weisure, nimiety and 217 more...
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Field Mass
for the same
fanon, armet, wether, filibuster, shadoof, shabrack, mai, sainfoin, sand-crack, panoply, guerdon, flunky and 234 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Free rice 2012.12
lacustrine, claque, dottle, kine, arcanum, bandoleer, bedight, fascicle
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freerice vocab
wrong answers + attractive new vocab
parturition, lyophilization, pharisaic, ligneous, hoyden, hyaloid, frangible, anthropophagous, edentulous, candent, sarcoid, intumescence and 33 more...
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le mot juste
minikin, skosh, fulgent, nimiety, flense, peridot, camorra, dottle, alizarin, chunder, cree, umami and 10 more...
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The Sirens of Titan
Words gathered while reading The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut.
edwardian, rakehell, chrono-synclastic..., parvenu, chiton, dottle, ort, residua, narwhal, lulu, peyotl, peignoir and 49 more...
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Words from freerice.com
foolscap, tabor, pilus, carom, pomelo, pluton, bulbul, dhole, duenna, poniard, breviary, bollix and 88 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dottle.
grant_barrett This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day. Nov 11, 2009
yarb Citation on drone. Jun 22, 2008
reesetee the plug of unburned tobacco left in a pipe after smoking Mar 1, 2007