dottle

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He's been an awfu' handfu' tae me, an' noo a' coont him clean dottle (silly).

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  1. noun The plug of tobacco ash left in the bowl of a pipe after it has been smoked.

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  1. From dot1, lump (obsolete).

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  1. Also written dottel; from Middle English dottel, dotelle, a plug or tap of a vessel (cf. Low German dutte, a plug), ult. from Anglo-Saxon dott, English dot, a point, later dyttan, English dit, stop up: see dot and dit.
 

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