DOTE—Helping; serving; what yan’s to hev. Thoo sees that? That’s they dote, and thoo’ll hev ta mak ’t sarra.
DOWIN—Lunch, ten o’clock. Aye! aye! thoo allus manishes ta land up aboot dowin time.
DOWLY—Lots o’ gurt fooak er allus bodderen aboot nacken talk, whar it co’ frae, wheea used it, hoo it com, an’ seea on. Noo here’s yan at’s come streck frae nature’s heart, ’at’s bin allus used amang “grey farms, crags, and the stony ways of the mountains,” but neeabody bodders aboot it ner its history. If words could talk it wad tak us a gay bit ta hear o ’at this word hed ta say aboot lianly looanens, an’ deserted ho’s an’ hiams whar boggles hes’ ’t o their awn way. An’ yan was tellin’ me net lang sen hoo “dowly” it was at times in a gurt town whar she kent neeabody at o an’ nivver saw ner hard a coo, er a cauf, ner a sheep. Seea what it izzant allus dowly becos ther’s neeabody aboot but yan’s sell, an’ it’s possible ta be dowly in a crood, wi’ gas leets as thick as hail, an’ plenty o’ stirrins gaan on. But boddumly, that’s t’ meaning on’t, whiat, dark, an’ iv’ry thing as whisht as a griav. Whar ye can hear yer awn thowts an’ git freeten’d o’ them. That’s dowly.
DOUBLE-JOINTED—Extra strong. Siam as Yankee Doodle pig.
DOW—Condition; character. Hoo er ye? Ah’s nowt at dow ato barn. He’ll nivver deea neea dow skitteren aboot as he does.
DOG-FO—In wrestling when both come down and neither can be declared as victor. A dog-fo’s ta deea ower.
DOG-DAISIES—Wild Marguerite.
DOCTOR—Patch, mend. Doctor mi auld shoon will ye.
DOXY—A term conveying contempt. She’s a smart doxy.
DOG-TROT—A hauf-breed between a walk an’ a run. He was gaan at a dog-trot.