different between pacifier vs dottle

English

Etymology

From pacify +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pæs?fa??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæs?fa??/
• Hyphenation: pa?ci?fi?er

Noun

pacifier (plural pacifiers)

1. Someone or something that pacifies. [from 16th c.]
2. (Canada, US) A rubber or plastic device imitating a nipple that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby. [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: dummy, (UK, Australia, NZ) comforter, (Canada, Ireland) soother; see also Thesaurus:pacifier

Translations

Further reading

• pacifier on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002594.php

French

Etymology

From Latin p?cific?, p?cific?re, from p?x (“peace”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.si.fje/

Verb

pacifier

1. to pacify

Conjugation

Further reading

• “pacifier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?t?l/

Rhymes: -?t?l

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms

• dottel

Noun

dottle (plural dottles)

1. A plug or tap of a vessel.
2. A small rounded lump or mass.
3. The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.
   • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber p. 96:

     one hand guards the burning dottle of my pipe from the force of the wind

   • 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus 1982, p. 38:

     I clenched my pipe in my right fist and poked at the dottle busily with various fingers, first one then another, of my left hand.

   • 1984, Alan Dean Foster, The Hour of the Gate, page 89:

     He tapped out the dottle on the deck, locked the steering oar in position, and commenced repacking his pipe.
4. (Tyneside) A baby's dummy, pacifier.

Translations

References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4

Etymology 2

Related to dote, dotard.

Adjective

dottle (comparative more dottle, superlative most dottle)

1. (Scotland) Stupid or senile.
   • 1893: David Herschell Edwards, One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, volume 15, page 403

     When days and years proclaim you’re old?—
     ?A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow,
     Then for support you can lay hold
     ?O’ the upright of your umberella.

Noun

dottle (plural dottles)

1. (Scotland) A dotard.

Synonyms

• dodipole, dotel; see also Thesaurus:dotard

Anagrams

• Dettol, lotted, tolted