DOIF, _adj._ deaf, dull. Irving, 214. See _douff_. For similar parallel forms cp. _gowk_ and _goilk_; _nowt_ and _nolt_; _howk_ and _holk_; _lowp_ and _loip_; _bowdyn_ and _boildin_, etc. DONK, _adj._ damp, moist. Douglas, II, 196, 32; Dunbar, G.T., 97. Cu. _donky_. See Skeat under _dank_. Cp. _donk_ sb. DONK, _sb._ a moist place. Rolland, I, 2. Sw. dial. _dank_, a moist marshy place, small valley. O.N. _dökk_, a pool, Norse _dok_, a valley, Shetland _dek_. Exhibits E. Scand. non-assimilation of _nk_ to _kk_. DONK, _vb._ to moisten. Dunbar, T.M.W., 10, 512. M.E. _donken_, to moisten. See _donk_, adj. DONNART, _adj._ stupid, stupefied. Mansie Wauch, 96, 29. Norse _daana_, Sw. _dåna_, to faint. For the _r_ cp. dumbfoundered, M.W., p. 210, 25. An excrescent _r_ appears in a number of words, so in _dynnart_, a variant of the word above, Dunbar, T.M.W. 10. Cp. _daunert_, in stupor, Johnnie Gibb, 56, 44, and _dauner_, to wander aimlessly, Psalms CVII, 40. DOOCK, DUCK. _sb._ a kind of coarse cloth. Jamieson. Probably in this case, as the form of the word indicates, from O.N. _dúkr_, O. Sw. _dūker_, cloth. Cp. Norse _dūk_, Dan. _dug_, Sw. dial. _duk_. Skeat derives the Eng. _duck_ from Du. _dock_, but the Sco. word agrees more closely with the Norse. DOSEN, _adj._ stupefied. Burns 220, 107, 2. Cp. Cu. _dozent_, stupefied, and Mansie Wauch, 207, 24, _dozing_, whirling, sprawling. The Norse work _dusen_ has the same meaning as _dosen_ above. The form _dosynt_, pp. dazed, stunned (Burns), is to be explained from a Sco. vb. _dosen_ (not necessarily _dosnen_ in Scotland), corresponding to M.E. _dasin_, O.N. _dasa_. See Skeat under _doze_. DOWFF, DOUF, DOLF, _adj._ deaf, dull, melancholy, miserable. Douglas, II, 63, 11; Burns, 44, 4. O.N. _daufr_, deaf, Norse _dauv_, drowsy, dull, _dauva_, make drowsy. See _dowie_. DOWIE, DOWY, _adj/_ melancholy, dismal. O.N. _doufr_, dead, drowsy. Norse _dauv_, _dau_, id. Cp. Sco. _doolie_ and Ir. _doiligh_, mournful, O.N. _daufligr_, dismal. DOWLESS, _adj._ careless, worthless. Isaiah, 32, 11. O.N. _duglauss_, Norse _duglaus_, good for nothing, said of a person who has lost all courage or strength, as opposed to _duglegr_, capable. Norse _dugløysa_, weakness, inability. Cp. Dan. _due_, to be able. Germ. _taugen_. DRAIK, _vb._ to drown, drench. Lyndsay, 247, 714; _draikit_, Isaiah, I, 22. Apparently from O.N. _drekkja_, to drown, to swamp. The vowel is difficult to explain. The Cu. form _drakt_, drenched, wet, indicates a verb, _drak_. The change in vowel would then be similar to that in _dwall_ from O.N. _dvelja_, Eng. _dwell_. Uncertain.