Dadder, C, (Dodder in Furness, etc.) tremble, shiver.
I once heard a Cumberland youth, at a supper table, say, indicating a
“shape” of jelly, “I’ll tak sūm o’ that _dadderin’_ stuff.”
Dadge, C, to plod along heavily.
“Then _dadged_ we to the bog owre meedows dree,
To plet a sword and seevy cap for thee.”
_Relph._ Cursty and Peggy.
Daft, S and C, foolish, silly.
“Glower’t at me as he’d been _daft_.”
Song—The carle cam ower the craft.
“Ses I, ‘A was niver larnt sec _daftness_.’”
_Rev. T. Clarke._ Johnny Shippard.
Daized, C, stupified, benumbed.
“Theer war we stannin’, dodderin’ an’ _daiz’t_ wi’ cauld, as neer
deead as macks nea matter.”
_Betty Yewdale._ T’ terrible Knitters i’ Dent.
Dark, C, to lurk, keep unseen.
“On her leànly bed she toss’d her,
_Darkin’_ till the tempest ceas’d.”
_Stagg._ The Return.
Darrak, C, day’s-work.
“An’ as for a _darrak_ in barn or in meedow,
Whee match’d me when just i’ my prime.”
_Anderson._ Twee auld Men.
Dicht, S, wipe, or cleanse.
“An’ aye she _dichtit_ her father’s bluidy wounds,
When the blude ran reid as wine.”
Ballad—The Douglas Tragedy.
Doff, C, (do off, Old English) undress, strip.
“The bridesmaids o’ wi’ fusslin care
The bride, hauf-yieldin’, _doff’t_.”
_Stagg._ The Bridewain.
Don, C, (do on, old English) to dress.
“And up he rose, and he _donn’d_ on his clothes,
And he d’upp’d the chamber door.”
Hamlet.
“He’s nicer in his war-day duds
Nor udders _don’t_ i’ aw their best.”
_Anderson._ Geordie Gill.
Donk, C, damp.
“It _donks_ an’ dazzles an’ does, but niver cūms iv any girt pell.”
A Boatman, on the Ullswater weather.
Dool, S, sadness.
“Lang may I weep in _dool_ an’ sorrow.”
_Hamilton._ The Braes o’ Yarrow.
Douce, S and C, respectable, well-behaved.
“An’ now I’m grown sae cursed _douce_,
I pray and ponder but the house.”
_Burns._
“The _douce_ dapper lanleady criet ‘Eat, an’ be welcome.’”
_Anderson._ The Bleckell Murry-Neet.
Doucht, S, could; Dowe in the past tense.
“They held the nose an’ crook’t the mou’,
An’ _doucht_ na bide the smell.”
_Hogg._ The Witch o’ Fife.
Dour, S, hard, stern.
“I’ll set her up on yon crab-tree,
It’s sour an’ _dour_, an’ so is she.”
Old Rhyme.
Dow, S, can, is able.
“Gin we canna do as we wad, we maun do as we _dowe_.”
Proverb.
Dowly, C, melancholy, dismal.
“When we turn’t round Windermere Watter heead, t’ waves blash’t seea
_dowly_ ’at we war fairly heart-brossen.”
_Betty Yewdale._ T’ terrible Knitters i’ Dent.
Dree, S, suffer; C, slow, lingering, also to move slowly.
“_Dree_ out the inch when ye’ve tholed the span.”—Proverb.
“Six _dree_ year hed Susan languish’d
Sen her Walter went away.”
_Stagg._ The Return.
Drook, S, drench.
“An’ aye she took the tither sook
To _drook_ the stoury tow.”
Song—The weary pun’ o’ tow.
Drouthy, S, thirsty.
“The well o’ life is dribbling dry,
An’ _drouthy, drouthy’s_ kimmer an’ I.”
Song—My Kimmer and I.