dottle

残烟丝

发音

UK /ˈdɒtəl/
其它

词形变化

dottles 复数 dottled dottles 三单 dottles dottling dottling 现在分词 dottled 过去式 dottled 过去分词 more dottle 比较级 most dottle 最高级

别名

dottel

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A plug or tap of a vessel.

  2. 2.

    A small rounded lump or mass.

  3. 3.

    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."

  4. 4.

    A baby's dummy, pacifier.

  5. 1.

    A dotard.

    苏格兰
v.
  1. 1.

    To set pottery flatware horizontally on thimbles.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Stupid or senile.

    苏格兰

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

residue

词源

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.

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