Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Dull; melancholy; in bad health; in bad tune.
Examples
“It is a gruesome and dowie den, but well worth a visit.”
“Tebeeb washka't dowie elmoot_, i.e. "O, doctor, canst thou cure death?”
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
“Ah, weel may young Jamie gang dowie and cheerless,”
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
“Mirren McKinnon, that was once Mirren Stuart, was dowie that day, and her eyes red with greeting, for her son had gone to the sea, as his father had long ago.”
“The people were sleeping; the salt air of Loch Finne went sighing through the place in a way that made me dowie for old days.”
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
“The first days were dowie, while time slipt awa ';”
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
“And then if yere dowie, I will sit wi you a gliff in the evening mysell, man, and help ye out wi your bottle; I have drank mony a glass wi Glossin, man, that did you up, though hes a justice now.”
“I cried all the way home; and then sat down so/dowie/by the fire, indisposed to speak to any son or daughter of Adam.”
“I wish you wouldn't look so thin and dowie-like, as we say up at home -- you've no cause to fret, I'm sure.”
“Yarrow, and the deep black pools, now called the "dowie dens," and so,”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dowie’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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scots words
gowk, wellkenspeckled, dowie, crivvens, clashmaclavers, kludgie, perjink, puddock, well-kenspeckled, gaberlunzie, wheesht, thrawn and 65 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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garyth123 o edina I could ne'er part with thee but wi' a dowie heart
Robert Fergusson Dec 4, 2008
garyth123 my favourite scots word Dec 1, 2008