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.
- 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 BurnsCopyright 1910
Ward, Lock, and Co., Ltd