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Quotation dates: 1865-1869
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†DAUK, Dauch, adj.1 “Stupid, doltish” (Abd. 1905 E.D.D.Suppl.); slow, sluggish.Bnff. a.1866 W. Knight Auld Yule, etc. (1869) 36:
A' chatty chiels, and neither dauk nor scaur, Wha ilka day maintain'd a wordy war.Bnff. 1869 Lonach Day in Bnffsh. Jnl. (17 Aug.) 2:
So that at race, or dance, or leap, Nane o' them may be dauch Whan they compete in native sports That day upon the haugh.
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