dwy

[ dwahy ]

noun

, Newfoundland Dialect.

, plural dwies.

1. a gusty flurry or shower; a brief squall or storm accompanied by precipitation: nothing more than a little rain dwy.

   the last dwies of winter;

   nothing more than a little rain dwy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dwy¹

First recorded in 1860–65; compare dialectal (Isle of Wight) dwyes “eddies” and (Wiltshire, Hampshire) twy “coastal squall”; further origin unknown

Example Sentences

Barbers Dwy Rice and Seth Gregory had the free haircut idea and want to organize future events to help the community.

From Washington Times

Glofa Lewis Merthyr, Cwm Rhondda, oedd wedi cau dwy flynedd ynghynt yn 1983.

From BBC

Then going up to the man, I put my right fore-finger very near to his nose, and said, “Dwy o iaith dwy o wyneb; two languages, two faces, friend!”

From Project Gutenberg

I thought on the old times when Mona was the grand seat of Druidical superstition, when adoration was paid to Dwy Fawr, and Dwy Fach, the sole survivors of the apocryphal Deluge; to Hu the Mighty and his plough; to Ceridwen and her cauldron; to András the Horrible; to Wyn ab Nudd, Lord of Unknown, and to Beli, Emperor of the Sun. 

From Project Gutenberg

The valley of the Dee, of which the Llangollen district forms part, is called in the British tongue Glyndyfrdwy—that is, the valley of the Dwy or Dee. 

From Project Gutenberg