DARK—To hide. Dark doon aback o’ t’ yat stoop.
DARK—Secret; gloomy; morose. He’s t’ dark side oot.
DARK—To rush suddenly from a hiding place. He wad dark atop o’ yan afooar yan hed time ta think.
DARK’T—Sheltered. We dark’t aback o’ a stack.
DARKEN—Prowling; skulking. What’s thoo darken efter?
DARRAK, DARGUE—Good classical scholars ’ll use this yan an’ net be shamm’d on ’t—John Ruskin amang them. It means a day’s wark, er hoo mich yan can deea in a day. A darrak o’ mowin, threshin, plewin, an’ seea on. In a good day’s darrak many a yan hes as much pleasure yet as some hev ’at’s allus laiken.
DASH—A young oath. Dash it, ah left mi pipe.
DASH-BON, DASH-IT—T’ least said t’ siunest mended; but they’re theer fer o’ that.
DAUP—The carrion crow. Aye fer sewer, but its a nasty word fer nasty fooak as weel. seck as a gurt mucky daup.
DAWDLE, DAWDLIN, DAWDLY—These er o o’ yah sooart, though they’re different macks—they o mean idleness, muck, an’ misery.