Usually means: Small, migratory, plover-like bird.
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  1. dotterel: Merriam-Webster
  2. dotterel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dotterel: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dotterel: Vocabulary.com
  5. dotterel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. dotterel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. dotterel: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Dotterel, dotterel: Dictionary.com
  9. Dotterel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Dotterel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. dotterel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. dotterel: Rhymezone
  13. Dotterel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. dotterel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. dotterel: FreeDictionary.org
  16. dotterel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. dotterel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. dotterel: Wordnik
  19. dotterel: Wiktionary

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  1. dotterel: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dotterel)

noun:  A gullible fool, especially an elderly person with impaired faculties.
noun:  A small brown-and-black bird, Charadrius morinellus, of the plover family.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) Any of various small birds of Australasia thought to resemble the Eurasian dotterel.
adjective:  decayed

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