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Dated vs Dawted - What's the difference?

dated | dawted |

As verbs the difference between dated and dawted

is that dated is past tense of date while dawted is past tense of dawt.

As an adjective dated

is marked with a date.

dated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Marked with a date.
  • Out of date.
  • Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.
  • No longer fashionable.

    • Synonyms

    * old fashioned * retro

    Antonyms

    * (out of date) up to date

    Verb

    (head)
  • (date)

    • dawted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dawt)

    • 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.