Glossary Of Scottish Words Used By Robert Burns: D-Words

D-Words

by Robert Burns

Daddie
A father.
Daffin'
Merriment, foolishness.
Daft
Merry, giddy, foolish; Daft-buckie, mad fish.
Dails
Planks.
Daimen
Rare, now and then; daimen icker, an ear of corn occasionally.
Dainty
Pleasant, good-humoured, agreeable, rare.
Dales
Plains, valleys.
Dandered
Wandered.
Darg
A day's labour.
Darklins
Darkling, without light.
Daud
To thrash, to abuse. Daudin-showers, rain urged by wind.
Daur
To dare; Daut, dared; Daurna, dare not.
Daurg or Daurk
A day's labour.
Davoc
Diminutive of Davie, as Davie is of David.
Dawd
A large piece.
Dawin'
Dawning of the day.
Dawtit, dawtet
Fondled, caressed.
Dead-sweer
Unwilling.
Dearies
Diminutive of dears, sweethearts.
Dearthfu'
Dear, expensive.
Deave
To deafen.
Deil-ma-care
No matter, for all that.
Deleerit
Delirious.
Descrive
To describe, to perceive.
Deuks
Ducks.
Dight
To wipe; to clean corn from chaff.
Ding
To worst, to push, to surpass, to excel.
Dink
Neat, lady-like.
Dinna
Do not.
Dirl
A slight tremulous stroke or pain, a tremulous motion.
Distain
Stain.
Dizzen, or diz'n
A dozen.
Do, doos
A dove, doves, pigeons.
Dochter
Daughter.
Doited
Stupefied, silly from age.
Dolt
Stupefied, crazed; also a fool.
Donsie
Unlucky, affectedly neat and trim, pettish.
Doodle
To dandle.
Dool
Sorrow; to sing dool, to lament, to mourn.
Dorty
Saucy, nice.
Douce, or douse
Sober, wise, prudent.
Doucely
Soberly, prudently.
Dought
Was or were able.
Doup
Bottom.
Doup-skelper
One that strikes the tail.
Dour and din
Sullen and sallow.
Doure
Toughly obdurate.
Douser
More prudent.
Dow
Am, or are, able, can.
Dowff
Pithless, wanting force.
Dowie
Worn with grief, fatigue, etc., half asleep.
Downa
Am or are not able, cannot.
Doylt
Wearied, exhausted, stupid.
Doytin
Walking clumsily.
Dozen
Stupefied, the effects of age -- to dozen, to benumb.
Drab
A young female beggar; to spot, to stain.
Drants
Humours.
Drap, drapping
A drop, to drop; dropping.
Draunting
Drawling, speaking with a sectarian tone.
Dreep
To ooze, to drop.
Dreigh
Tedious, long about it, lingering.
Dribble
Drizzling, trickling, slaver.
Driddle
The motion of one who tries to dance but moves the middle only.
Drift
A drove, a flight of fowls, snow moved by the wind.
Droddum
The breech.
Drone
Part of a bagpipe, the chanter.
Droop-rumpl't
That droops at the crupper.
Droukit
Wet.
Drouth
Thirst, drought.
Drucken
Drunken.
Drumlie, drumly
Muddy.
Drummock, or drammock
Meal and water mixed, raw.
Drunt
Pet, sour humour.
Dub
A small pond, a hollow filled with rain water.
Duds, duddie
Rags, clothes; ragged.
Dung-dang
Worsted, pushed, stricken.
Dunted
Throbbed, beaten.
Dush, dunsh
To push or butt as a ram
Dusht
Overcome with superstitious fear, to drop down suddenly, pushed by a ram, etc.
Dyvor
Bankrupt, or about to become one.

Source:

The Poetical Works Of Robert Burns
Copyright 1910
Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd