dwam

/ dwɔːm; dwɑːm /

noun

1. a stupor or daydream (esp in the phrase in a dwam )

verb

1. intr to faint or fall ill

Word History and Origins

Origin of dwam¹

Old English dwolma confusion

Example Sentences

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From The Guardian

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

I whiles fa’ into a bit dwam like this,” he says; “it’s frae the stamach.”

From Project Gutenberg

“If I get a dwam here,” he thocht, “it’s by wi’ Tam Dale.”

From Project Gutenberg