Did you mayhaps mean swam?
Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found.
Examples
“There had come over all my spirit a kind of dwam, so that at times my head seemed as if it were stuffed with wool; what mattered was of no account, even if it were a tinker's death in the sheuch.”
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
“So the Prebendary went into the house in a kind of dwam, as the Scots put it, and had no notion of what the Dean had to say; and when he got back to the garden he found his gardener smoothing the plot with a long rake, and raking in a lot of dead ants with the mould.”
“There was a sigh of relief and Dad would be in a daydreamy dwam until the final bars of All I Have to Do is Dream repeated to fade.”
“Half listening, practicing his shorthand, or hieroglyphics as Don called it, Rob went off into another dwam.”
“From time to time, he'd slumped to the floor in a dwam, his mind rambling in the strangest of directions.”
“Juist say I've taen a kind o 'a dwam, but that I'll likely be a' richt again in a day or twa.”
“The fall lost me the last of my senses: I but heard some of the Stewarts curse me for an encumbrance as they stumbled over me and passed on, heedless of my fate, and saw, as in a dwam, one of them who had abraded his knees by his stumble over my body, turn round with a drawn knife that glinted in a shred of moonlight.”
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
“He couldn't do nowt to Doed so lang as he were maister o 'his senses, but if he was to get fair giddy an' drop off into a dwam, then, sure enif, Melsh Dick would have him i 'his power and could turn him intul a squirrel as he'd turned other lads an' lasses afore.”
“If I get a dwam here," he toucht, "it's by wi 'Tam Dale.”
“But he begood to dwam (sicken) in the end of the year, and soughed awa 'in the spring.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dwam’.
-
outcasts
Words that people on Twitter don't think are words.
I wrote a little script that runs every day. It searches the Twitter API for tweets containing the words, "is not a word". Each (non...unfollow, suppose-ably, qirl, darkskin, haz, stoints, uglyer, boringest, fustrating, linx, yolo, excapes and 22591 more...
-
bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
-
The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
-
Lardons of Random Palavery
Another of my lists of 151 words - some food-related, others not. Whatever the reason, these are words or phrases that intrigue or excite me.
tankage, food grade silicone, food grade diatom..., food grade tape, food grade adhesive, food grade sealant, food grade grease, food grade glue, food grade hydrog..., food grade lye, property virgin, beeswax pellet and 139 more...
-
just because
These are words I am picking just because I like them.
I might make more categorized lists later, we shall have to wait and see.animated, asperger, ersatz, surreptitious, extraneous, asynchronous, erroneous, surreal, dreamlike, lackadaisical, opium, firnification and 55 more...
-
Literarie: 'Lanark'
The novel 'Lanark' by Alasdair Gray.
gafuffle, coolie continent, silently, chapterhouse, intercalendrical, triforium, yacacaw, blockplag, implag, difplag, dunt, dauner and 22 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dwam.
hernesheir This word is found in the 1816 The Antiquary (Waverly Novels) by Sir Walter Scott. See quote under unbrissed. Jan 28, 2010
yarb He fell into a dwam in which he felt only the hard kerb under his backside and awoke suddenly with a hushing sound in his ears.
- Alasdair Gray, Lanark, ch. 12 Jan 18, 2009
sonofgroucho Isn't this a great word? It means a trance-like state, but it wasn't defined as such, even in the Urban Dictionary. I've submitted a definition. Apr 1, 2007