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Quotation dates: 1864
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¶DROTTLAN, n. In pl. Fragments, small pieces, smithereens, lit. and fig. Only in Latto.Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto T. Bodkin 20, 191:
His entire body o' divinity wad hae been dung to drottlans. . . . He dang a' the dishes to drottlans.
[Poss. a nonce conflation of Dottle, n.1, 2. and driddlins s.v. Driddle, v., 2. (1).]
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