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dirl
clatter; pierce; reverberate; throb; blow; vibration
dirl by
pass swiftly, of time
dirl-aff
reel off
dirlie-bane
funny bone
disjaskit
wearied; downcast
disna
does not
Disnae
Doesn't
divert
diversion; entertainment
Diz
Does
Diz'n
dizzen, dozen.
Dizn't
Doesn't
dizzen
dozen
Dizzy
The act of being stood up
Doacter
Doctor
Dobber
Penis
dochter
daughter
Dochter
daughter.
dochtie
brave; powerful
dock
backside; buttocks
Doin, Doing
A beating
Doited
muddled, doting; stupid, bewildered.
doitit
absent-minded; crazed; stupified
dominie
schoolmaster
donnert
stupefied
Donsie
vicious, bad-tempered; restive; testy.
doo
dove (or pigeon)
dook
duck (in the sense of wetting - ?dooking for apples? is a Halloween game involving placing your face into a basin of water to retrieve a floating apple by biting on it)
Dool, wo
sorrow.
Doolfu'
doleful, woful.
doon
down (?doon the water? is a trip down the Clyde)
Doon
Down
Dorty
pettish.
Dosser
Down and Out
Douce, doucely, dousely
sedately, prudently.
Douce, douse
sedate, sober, prudent.
Doudl'd
dandled.
Dought (pret. of dow)
could.
douk
bathe; dip
Douked
ducked.
doun
down
dounheid
dislike
Doup
the bottom.
Doup-skelper
bottom-smacker.
dour
grim
Dour-doure
stubborn, obstinate; cutting.
dove / dover
doze ; drowze
dover owre
dose off
Dow
a dove.
Dow, dowe
am (is or are) able, can.
Dowf, dowff
dull.
dowie
ailing; dejected; mournful
Dowie
drooping, mournful.
Dowilie
drooping.
Downa
can not.
Downa-do (can not do)
lack of power.
Doylt
stupid, stupefied.
Doytin
doddering.
Dozen'd
torpid.
dozent
bewildered; stupefies; impotent
Dozin
torpid.
Draigl't
draggled.
dram
a small unit of volume, referring to a drink of Scotch whisky
dram
glass of spirits ( usually whisky )
dram
small quantity of whisky
Drant
prosing.
drap
drop
Drap
drop.
Draunting
tedious.
draw ti
take a seat at the table
Dree
endure, suffer.
dreel
drill, in all senses; line; row
dreep
drip (also used of dropping off a wall)
dreich
wet and miserable weather
dreich
dull; monotonous; tardy; desolate; dreary
dreich
miserable, cold and wet (weather)
Dreich
Drab / Wet weather
Dreigh
tedious, dull.
dreip
drip; drizzling rain; soft, spiritless person
Dribble
drizzle.
Driddle
to toddle.
drieshach
glowing fire
Droddum
the breech.
Drone
part of the bagpipe.
drookit
dripping wet
drookit
dripping wet
Drookit
Soaked through
Droont
Drowned
Droop-rumpl't
short-rumped.
Drouk
to wet, to drench.
droukit
drenched ; soaked
Droukit
wetted.
droun
drown
Drouth
thirst.
Drouthy
thirsty.
drover
one who drove cattle to distant markets, using their Border Collies. Drovers from Scotland were licensed in 1359 to drive stock through England
drucken
drunken
Druken, drucken
drunken.
Drum, The
Drumchapel, area of Glasgow
Drumlie
muddy, turbid.
Drummock
raw meal and cold water.