dawk

¹ American  

[dawk, dahk] / dɔk, dɑk /

noun

1. dak.

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dawk ² American  

[dawk] / dɔk /

noun

1. a person who advocates neither a conciliatory nor a belligerent national attitude.

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dawk ¹ British  

/ dɔːk /

noun

1. a variant spelling of dak

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dawk ² British  

/ dɔːk /

noun

1. dialect a Northern English dialect word for hand

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Other Word Forms

• dawkish adjective

Etymology

Origin of dawk

1965–70; d(ove) ¹ + ( h)awk ¹

Example Sentences

Although the hawks were originally in the majority, according to the Post, opinions finally merged, and everybody joined Dean Rusk as a "dawk or a hove."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sleep, ma baby, close youah lil fingahs, Meah, Loo-la, Loo-la, tight about ma fingahs heah, De dawk come close, but baby don' you nebbeh feah, Youah mammy'll hol' you, hol' you till de mawn appeah.

From The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies by Connor, Ralph

Dak, d�k, Dawk, dawk, n. in India, the mail-post: travelling in palanquins carried by relays of bearers.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

A boat for the conveyance of letters in India; dawk being the Hindostanee for mail.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

A sharp iron nail unseen might "dawk" the skin off an unwary hand.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard