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Caress vs Dawt - What's the difference?

caress | dawt |

As verbs the difference between caress and dawt

is that caress is to touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle while dawt is to fondle or caress.

As a noun caress

is an act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.

caress

English

Noun

(caresses)
  • An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.
  • * Longfellow
    • Wooed her with his soft caresses .
  • * Macaulay
    • He exerted himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command.
  • A gentle stroking or rubbing.

    • Verb

  • To touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle.
    • She loves being caressed by her boyfriend.
  • To affect as if with a caress.

    • Synonyms

    * hold * soothe * stroke * kiss

    Antonyms

    * poke * stab * strike * hit

    Anagrams

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    dawt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * daut

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scottish) To fondle or caress.
  • * 1788', , ''To '''Dawt on Me'', in 2004 [1886], ''The Complete Works of Robert Burns , Part Two, page 163,
    • To dawt' on me, and me sae young, / Wi' his fause heart and flatt'ring tongue, / That is the thing you shall never see, / For an auld man shall never ' dawt on me.
  • * c.18thC , in 1976, Thomas Crawford (editor), Love, Labour, and Liberty: the eighteenth-century Scottish lyric , page 79,
    • Let him kiss her, clap her, and dawt her, / And gie her benevolence due, / And that will a thrifty wife mak her, / And sae I'll bid farewell to you.
  • * c.1882-1896 , ,
    • He courted her and he brought her hame, / An thought she would prove a thrifty dame. / She could nether spin nor caird, / But sit in her chair and dawt the laird.