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tawie

tawie adjective: docile or tractable to the extent of allowing itself to be handled without complaint.

Adjective

tawie (comparative more tawie, superlative most tawie)

  1. (Scotland) Docile or tractable to the extent of allowing itself to be handled without complaint.
    • 18th c, Robert Burns, The Auld Farmer's New-Year Salutation to His Auld Mare, Maggie, 1959, Ralph Knight (editor), Songs and Poems of Robert Burns, page 124,
      Tho' ye was trickie, slee, an' funnie, / Ye ne'er was donsie; / But hamely, tawie, quiet, an' cannie, / An' unco sonsie.

Forms of tawie

comparativemore tawie
superlativemost tawie

Questions about tawie

What does tawie mean?
Tawie means docile or tractable to the extent of allowing itself to be handled without complaint.
What part of speech is tawie?
Tawie is an adjective.

Words near tawie in the dictionary

  1. tawhai
  2. tawhero
  3. tawhid
  4. tawhiwhi
  5. Tawi-Tawi
  6. tawie
  7. Tawil
  8. Tawils
  9. tawing
  10. tawings
  11. Tawintawin

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