| 单词 |
dottle |
| 释义 |
▪ I. dottle, n.1 and a. Now Sc.|ˈdɒt(ə)l|
In 4–6 dotel.
[f. dote v.1 or n.1: see -le.]
A. n. A fool or dotard; a silly person.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1517 Þenne þe dotel on dece drank. 1562Burn. Paules Ch. in Pilkington's Wks. (Parker Soc.) 586 A drunken dotel. 1894J. Menzies Our Town viii. 85 ‘Your veesits to the auld dottle.’
B. adj. In a state of dotage; silly, crazy. Sc.
1808–18in Jamieson. 1820St. Kathleen III. 162 (Jam.) Ye dottle man. 1895Ian Maclaren Auld Lang Syne iv. i. 147 Till he be cripple an' dottle (crazy).
Hence dottled ppl. a., (Sc.) in the state of dotage.
1825in Jamieson.
▪ II. dottle, dottel, n.2|ˈdɒt(ə)l|
[app. dim. of dot n.1: cf. dit v.]
†1. A plug; = dossil 1. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 127/2 Dotelle, stoppynge of a vesselle (dottel, H. dossell, P.), ducillus, ductildus. 1743Maxwell Sel. Trans. Soc. Impr. Knowl. Agric. Scot. 284 (Jam.) Have a tub, with a small hole in the bottom of it, wherein put a cork or dottle in the under end.
2. The plug of tobacco ash remaining in the bottom of a pipe after smoking. (orig. Sc.)
1825in Jamieson. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke vi. (D.), A snuffer-tray containing scraps of half-smoked tobacco, ‘pipe dottles’, as he called them. 1890R. Kipling Soldiers Three, Black Jack (ed. 6) 84 Ortheris shot out the red-hot dottel of his pipe on the back of his hairy fist. 1894Doyle S. Holmes 214 His before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of all the plugs and dottels left from his smokes of the day before. |
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