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The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
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dottlin
adjective
mentally impaired because of age:
Aye, that's my wee bit pony there. It's no much, really, an old dottlin thing.'
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etymology:
Scots ‘dottle
verb
to walk with short, quick steps’; attested by
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