dowf
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of dowf
1475–85; < Old Norse daufr deaf, dull
Example Sentences
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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. 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
I’m dowf and blunkit, why, deuce only kens!
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
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