daud
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of daud
C18: from earlier dad to strike, of unknown origin
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He'll clap a shangan on her tail, An' set the bairns to daud her Wi' dirt this day.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
He’ll clap a shangan on her tail, An’ set the bairns to daud her Wi’ dirt this day.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
It would be aboot ane o'clock or thereaboot when Sandy gae me a daud wi' his elba that garred me a' jump.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
Meg, muckin' at Geordie's byre, Wrought as gin her judgment was wrang; Ilk daud o' the scartle strake fire, While loud as a lavrock she sang.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
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