| 单词 | dottle |
| 释义 | dottle (once / 168848 pages) n Use the noun dottle to describe the leftover, unburnt tobacco that's left in a pipe after it's been smoked. Your grandfather might knock the dottle from his pipe into the kitchen trash can every afternoon. Dottle is a very old-fashioned word that's specific to a fairly old-fashioned activity, pipe smoking. A well-packed pipe is meant to burn all the tobacco in its bowl, but sometimes there's a damp wad of smelly dottle left behind. The word, which is rarely used these days, was originally dossil, from the French word dosil, "a spigot or plug in a vessel." It became a pipe-smoking term in the early nineteenth century. WORD FAMILYdottle: dottles USAGE EXAMPLESHe knocked the dottle from his pipe and sauntered nearer the doorway; there he waited impatiently for the encore to end. Hervey, Harry, Caravans By Night—A Romance of Indi...(2011) At the end, Carleton tamped down the dottle in the bowl of his pipe thoughtfully with his forefinger—and glanced at Donkin. Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius), The Night Operator(2010) Taggert took his pipe out of his mouth and tapped the dottle into a nearby ash disposal unit. Garrett, Randall, Psichopath(2010) n the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking Hyper residue matter that remains after something has been removed |
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