Dawt

Quick meaning: Dawt is a verb meaning (Scotland) To fondle or caress.

Meaning

(Scotland) To fondle or caress.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• dawts
• dawting
• dawted

Synonyms for dawt

Depending on context, synonyms include faddle, grope, pettle, tiddle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include faddle, dandle, daff, daunder, dawner, dawb.

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