Lexicographical Neighbors of Daidle
Literary usage of Daidle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle: Together with a Few of Later Years and by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1889)
"1888), says of Scott himself: " He had . . . his hand and his blessing for the
head of every little Eppie daidle from Abbotstown or ..."
2. The Poetical Works of Hector Macneill, Esq by Hector Macneill, James Fittler, Anker Smith, James Heath (1801)
"Whan three times round the port wine passes And ilka friend has drank three
glasses; Nae langer grane, nor fyke, nor daidle, But brandish ye ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"... and daidle. This I bare formerly given ы Doddle, which does not so well express
the sound. DAIGH,«. ..."
4. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"A larger sort of bib, used for keeping the clothes of children clean ; a pin-afore,
S. Jac. Relia. To daidle, rn To trifle ..."
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