Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete and dialectal (Scotch) form of
daughter .
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Examples
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Mijn dochter van 4 wil graag op race paarden rijden … Zeg ik dan ‘goed, doen we!!!’
Global Voices in English » Netherlands: Too young to sail the world alone at 13? 2009
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Ze was op zoek naar haar dochter en wat bleek: wij hadden het meisje al een tijdje verzorgd.
religion, truth and human nature nathreee 2008
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Last nicht my dochter Merran was waddit, and they danced till fower in the byre.
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And he caused the auld washerwife and her dochter to be burned.
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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The auld wife had washed till she was tired, and then she set to her dochter, and baith washed, and they washed, and they better washed, in hopes of getting the young knight; but
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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At length they set the stranger damosel to wark; and whenever she began the stains came out pure and clean, but the auld wife made the knight believe it was her dochter had washed the sarks.
The Blue Fairy Book 2003
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Ah telt her faither gin he'd say no 'twid hurt his dochter sair, man.
Seton's Lassie 2001
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Een diamant van een dochter wordt een glas van eene vrouw.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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If this aren't Mr. Sherrud's dochter, I'm mista'en!
Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Stanford Eveleth
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For wee Jessie stood beside the bed, an 'I luikit at her an' I said, 'My little dochter.'
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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