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Dawk vs Dawt - What's the difference?

dawk | dawt |

As verbs the difference between dawk and dawt

is that dawk is to drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture while dawt is to fondle or caress.

As a noun dawk

is a hollow or crack in timber.

dawk

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.
  • To cut or mark with an incision; gash.
    • (Moxon)
  • To dig up weeds.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A hollow or crack in timber.
    • (Moxon)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    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.