dott

dott m (definite singular dotten, indefinite plural dotter, definite plural dottene)

1. a small ball of light, fluffy material

   Jeg har en lodott i navlen min.

   I have a ball of fluff in my navel.

2. a nobody, a foolish, inconsequential person

   Hvordan har den dotten fått den jobben?

   How did that nobody land that job?

• “dott” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse dottr.

• IPA^(key): /dɔtː/

dott m (definite singular dotten, indefinite plural dottar, definite plural dottane)

1. a small ball of light, fluffy material

   Eg har ein lodott i navlen min.

   I have a ball of fluff in my navel.

2. a nobody, a foolish, inconsequential person

   Korleis har den dotten fått den jobben?

   How did that nobody land that job?

3. a small group
   • 1894, Per Sivle, Svolder:

     […] sviakonungen, danadrotten, og Eirik jarl var au i dotten.

     The Swedish king, the lord of the Danes, and Earl Erik was also in the group.

• “dott” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”).

• IPA^(key): /dott/,

dott m

1. dot, speck, spot

• English: dot

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “dott”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.