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The Broad Scots Dictionary

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D

Daddie - "a father"
Daffin - "merriment, foolishness"
Daft - "merry, giddy, foolish"
Dainty - "pleasant, good-humoured, agreeable"
Daise or Daez - "to stupefy"
Dales - "plains, valleys"
Darklins - "darkling"
Daur - "to dare"
Daurt - "dared"
Davoc - "David"
Dawtit or dawtet - "fondled, caressed"
Dearies - "diminutive of dears"
Dearthfu' - "dear"
Deave - "to deafen"
Deil-ma-care - "no matter, for all that"
Descrive - "to describe"
Dight - "to wipe, to clean corn from chaff"
Dight - "cleaned from chaff"
Ding - "to worst, to push"
Dink - "neat, tidy, trim"
Dinna - "do not"
Dirl - "a slight tremulous stroke or pain"
Dizen or Dizz'n - "a dozen"
Doited - "stupefied, silly from old age"
Dolt - "stupefied, crazed"
Dool - "sorrow. To sing dool, to lament, to mourn"
Doos - "doves"
Dorty - "saucy, nice"
Douce or douse - "sober, wise, prudent"
Doucely - "soberly, prudently"
Dour or Din - "sullen, sallow"
Doure - "stout, durable, sullen, stubborn"
Dowff - "pithless, wanting force"
Downa - "am or are not able, cannot"
Dozent - "stupefied, impotent"
Draigle - "to soil by trailing, to draggle among wet, etc."
Drap - "a drop, to drop"
Drapping - "dropping"
Draunting - "drawling, of a slow enunciation"
Dreep - "to ooze, to drop"
Dreigh - "tedious, long about it"
Dribble - "drizzling, slaver"
Drift - "a drove"
Droddum - "the breech"
Drone - "part of a bagpipe"
Drookit - "wet"
Droop-rumpl't - "that droops at the crupper"
Drounting - "drawling"
Drouth - "thirst, drought"
Drucken - "drunken"
Drumly - "muddy"
Dub - "a small pond"
Duddie - "ragged; clothes"
Dung - "worsted, pushed, driven"
Dunted - "beaten, boxed"
Dusht - "pushed by a ram, ox, etc."

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