Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwaum
Literary usage of Dwaum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"... DWA [Ш] finable ailment, it U common to lay "It's just юте dwaum," S. To dwaum, ».
a. To fade, to decline in health. It is still said in this sense, ..."
2. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"... Ang. To dwaum, va To fade ; to decline in health. ... said in this sense, He
dwaum'd away, Loth. ..."
3. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson (1893)
"Last night an old woman told me that she sometimes had a dwaum. The word has no
English synonym; but can any of your readers tell me what its origin is? ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... break its very spine, till it's murdered or maimed, in death or dwaum—and oh !
mercy ! what a hubbub noo amang a' the desperate Distractions! ..."
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