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- Dike, 103, Ayr. a ditch, O. N. dike, Ger. Teich, a pool; sense varies bet. ditch and bank; lit. "dug or thrown up." "February fill the dike."
- Dilly-daw, 136, Sc. form of dilly-dally, as noun, in sense of untidy get-up: "a slow, slovenly person." E. E. D. has the quot. in the text
- Diminutives in Sc. and C. Du., 195
- Dimple, 147, Mo. to dint, make an impression, as of dimpling: quots. in E. D. D. are modern; none from Moray. See deeple. "Ye sudna dimple yir taties."—Gregor
- Dinna, dizna, dizn't, 168, 171, "do" with negative
- Dirdum, 150, No. "Or. unknown: not Sc. dird, a blow, consequences of error."—N. E. D. "The loon took a haud o'im, but he gae 'im a dirdum fae 'im, and ower 'e yod (gaed)."—Gregor
- Discharge, 72, Sc. law term
- Dishielogie, 123–156, Fi. tussilago or colt's-foot, dishy-lagy, Roxb.—E. D. D.
- Dius, 12, 20, 257, Go. deer, any wild animal as in Shak.
- Div and divna, 112, 167, 171, sp. Sc. also dis, disna, and dinna, for do, does not, and don't. The v here is an odd survival of an Ind.–Ger. causative formation, common in Sans., as stha, to stand, sth-ap-ayati, he causes to stand. Not in N. E. D.
- Divot, 149, Sc.; No. thin, flat piece of turf. Jam. from Lat. de-fo-dere, to dig
- Divot-fecht, 125, fight with thrown turfs; divot, origin not given in N. E. D.
- Divvel, 78, 196, devil, by a Gael. speaker. "Ministers, when they fall, are like angells that are divells."—Alex. Henderson to Gen. Ass., 1638
- Do, 206. See dow
- Do, 36, Eng. auxiliary, is not in Go. except in past tenses of weak verbs, e. g. lagi-dedjan=I lay-did, I laid, from lagjan, to lay
- Doach, 102, salmon-trap, peculiar to Gall.; or. unknown; not in E. D. D.
- Dochter, 18, 247, daughter. Go. dauhtar
- Dockens, 119, No.; O. E. doccan, Ger. Dockenblätter, Gael. dogha, burdock, anything valueless—"no worth a docken"
- Daddies, 163, polled cattle, Ab.; dod, doddy, a rounded hill (Bord.); dad, a lump, Fris. dadde, lump, bunch.—N. E. D. Abbrev. of George: not in these senses in E. D. D. See curl-doddy
- Doer, 72, Sc. law
- Doited, 110, sp. No., obtuse from age, perh. var. of doted; pron. deitit in Fi.
- Domestic series, 207
- Dool (for quoits), 131. See dules
- Dop, 222, C. Du. dop, shell, husk, cover. N. E. D., "Of Norse origin, O. N. daup." Var. doup, deep, candle-doup, Ger. Topf, a pot
- Dopper-Boer, Kirk, 192, 193, C. Du.
- Dorbie, 134, a mason, Fi., prob. akin to O. Fris. derf, Ger. derb, sturdy, O. N. thjarfr, common
- Dortin, 137, since 1500, obsc. or.; sulks, ill-humour. "Dorty Janet's pride."—Allan Ramsay
- Dorts, 69, sulks, Bu. to over-nurse—"She dorts awa at that geet o' hers, an' say gee in't feesic."—Gregor
- Dottrifeed, 151, Mo., rel. to dodder and totter, dottered, dotard, senile.—N. E. D.
- Double negative, 197
- Dough, 132, 254. Ger. Teig, Du. deeg, A. S. dah, O. N. deig; from Go. deigan, to "knead," daigs, dough. Cf. Ger. Sauerteig; cf. Lat. fingo
- Doughy, 172. See daichie
- Dow, 31, 69, 175, 206, can, No. Go. dauh, pret. *dauhta. O. H. G. *tohta; Go. dugan, Ger. taugen, Sc. docht and dought, to be good for, strong, to avail
"He downa gang to rest for his heart is in a flame."—Hogg.
- Dowie, 86, given under dolly in Jam. (II. 77). "The dowie dens
