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dowie, dowy, a. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈdaʊɪ, ˈdɒwɪ|
Also 5–6 dolly.
[The identity of dowie with l6th c. dolly appears to be proved by the treatment of the two as variants in Gawain Douglas. Probably a deriv. of ME. dol, doll, OE. dol, dull, with -y or -ly; cf. also dully, used in same sense, and OE. hál, háliᵹ, holy.]
Dull and lonely, melancholy, dreary, dismal.
1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 412 Now done is my dolly nyght, my day is vpsprungin. 1513Douglas æneis vii. Prol. 51 The dowy dichis [ed. 1553 dolly dikis] war all donk and wait. Ibid. x. iv. 73 The dolly tonys [ed. 1553 dowy tones] and lays lamentabill. Ibid. xiii. x 102 And end his dolly dayis, and dee. c1581Sempill Complaint on Fortoun 171 In Striuiling toun, out of his dowie den..thai fyrit him in his nest. 16..The Dowie Dens of Yarrow xv. (in Minstr. Sc. Border), She kiss'd them, till her lips grew red, On the dowie houms of Yarrow. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 26 What dowy hours I thole by your disdain. 1790Burns Highland Harry ii, I wander dowie up the glen. a1851Moir Poems, Disenchantment xiii, The dowie dens of Yarrow. 1890Scot. Liberal 14 Feb. 11 Dark valleys and dowie dens of ignorance.
Hence ˈdowily adv., ˈdowiness.
17..Twa Brithers xi. in Child Ballads (1884) ii. xlix. 439/2 Sae dowilie alane. 1801Macneill Poet. Wks. (1844) 107 Lying down dowylie, sighed by the willow tree. |