Daws vs Dawt - What's the difference?
daws | dawt |
(Scottish) To fondle or caress.
* 1788', , ''To '''Dawt on Me'', in 2004 [1886], ''The Complete Works of Robert Burns , Part Two,
* c.18thC , in 1976, Thomas Crawford (editor), Love, Labour, and Liberty: the eighteenth-century Scottish lyric ,
* c.1882-1896 , ,
As a noun daws
is plural of lang=en.As a verb dawt is
to fondle or caress.dawt
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Alternative forms
* dautVerb
(en verb)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.
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.
- 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.