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dwam
/ dwɔːm; dwɑːm /
noun
- a stupor or daydream (esp in the phrase in a dwam )
verb
- intr to faint or fall ill
Word History and Origins
Origin of dwam1
Example Sentences
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She healed Lady Johnstone’s daughter, married to the young Laird of Stanelie, by giving her a drink brewed under Thom’s auspices, namely, strong ale boiled with cloves, ginger, aniseed, liquorice, and white sugar, which warmed the “cauld blude that gaed about hir hart, that causit hir to dwam and vigous away,” or, as we would say, to swoon.
Then suddenly there came upon me a dwam and a turning in my head, so that I cried to them to run on and leave me to the pursuers.
I whiles fa’ into a bit dwam like this,” he says; “it’s frae the stamach.”
“If I get a dwam here,” he thocht, “it’s by wi’ Tam Dale.”
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