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dawt

dawt verb: to fondle or caress.

Verb

dawt (third-person singular simple present dawts, present participle dawting, simple past and past participle dawted)

  1. (Scotland) To fondle or caress.
    • 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.1788 [1886], Robert Burns, “To Dawt on Me”, in The Complete Works of Robert Burns, volume 2, Kessinger, published 2004, page 163
    • 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. 18th century, Some Say Kissing's A Sin; republished in Thomas Crawford, editor, Love, Labour, and Liberty: the eighteenth-century Scottish lyric, Carcanet Press, 1976, page 79
    Synonyms:
    faddle, grope, pettle, tiddle

Synonyms of dawt

Forms of dawt

third-person singular presentdawts
present participledawting
past participledawted
pastdawted
alternative formdaut

Questions about dawt

What does dawt mean?
Dawt means to fondle or caress.
What part of speech is dawt?
Dawt is a verb.
What is the past tense of dawt?
The past tense of dawt is dawted.

Words near dawt in the dictionary

  1. Dawson Creek
  2. dawsonite
  3. dawsonites
  4. Dawsons
  5. Dawsonville
  6. dawt
  7. dawted
  8. dawting
  9. dawts
  10. Dawu
  11. Dawud

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