dwam

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
Was that no enough to gar me tak a 'dwam' when ye spoke o' the great nobles no payin I would that all our outlying monies were as safe," said Semple; "but here come the knights and squires forth from their tents.

View all »
Examples (26)

  • Juist say I've taen a kind o' a dwam, but that I'll likely be a' richt again in a day or twa. —  My Man Sandy
  • 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. —  More Tales of the Ridings
  • 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. —  The Haunters ; The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural
  • Was that no enough to gar me tak a 'dwam' when ye spoke o' the great nobles no payin I would that all our outlying monies were as safe," said Semple; "but here come the knights and squires forth from their tents. —  The Black Douglas
  • But he begood to dwam (sicken) in the end of the year, and soughed awa' in the spring. —  Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush
 

Tags

dwam hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 32 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

significance · riddling · lap · thruppence · animals

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

be careful! the razor is razor-sharp! · minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread · beauregard · unicycle hockey