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dawt | dawg |

As a verb dawt

is to fondle or caress.

As a noun dawg is

eye dialect of nodot=8 lang=en; also {{term|hound dawg}}.

As an initialism DAWG is

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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.

    dawg

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • ; also (hound dawg).
  • That dawg won't hunt.
  • (slang) Dude, bud, pal. used to address a close male friend.
  • Sup, dawg .

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    Usage notes

    Using this spelling of dog'' emphasizes dialect and should only be done if this is explicitly intended. Every example above could also be written with ''dog , de-emphasizing dialect.

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