dowf

[douf, doof]

adjective

Scot. and North England.

1. dull; stupid.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dowf¹

1475–85; < Old Norse daufr deaf, dull

Example Sentences

The bridegroom might pass, in his manly prime and his scarlet coat, although a dowf gallant; but who would have thought that Nelly Carnegie in the white brocade which was her grandmother's the day that made her sib to Rothes—Nelly Carnegie who flouted at love and lovers, and sported a free, light, brave heart, would have made so dowie a bride?

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

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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!

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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.

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I wadna gie our ain Strathspeys For half a hunder score o' them; They're dowf and dowie at the best, Dowf and dowie, dowf and dowie, Dowf and dowie at the best, Wi' a' their variorum; They're dowf and dowie at the best, Their allegros and a' the rest, They canna' please a Scottish taste, Compared wi' Tullochgorum.

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