dowf

American  

[douf, doof] / daʊf, duf /

adjective

Scot. and North England.

1. dull; stupid.

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Etymology

Origin of dowf

1475–85; < Old Norse daufr deaf, dull

Example Sentences

I. When o’er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin-time is near, my jo; And owsen frae the furrow’d field Return sae dowf and weary, O!

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 Burns, Robert

Observe the very nowt an’ sheep, How dowf and dowie now they creep; Nay, even the yirth itsel’ does cry, For Embro’ wells are grutten dry.

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 Burns, Robert

I’m dowf and blunkit, why, deuce only kens!

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson