dottle

1. 1.

   the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking

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Other forms of dottle

plural

dottles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dottle

What does dottle mean?

dottle means "the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking".

How many syllables are in dottle?

dottle has 2 syllables: dot-tle. The stress falls on "dot".

Is dottle a common word?

dottle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.