| 释义 |
dowly, a. and adv. North. dial.|ˈdaʊlɪ|
Also 5 dauly, 5–9 dawly.
[Perh. a doublet of Sc. dowie, in 15–16th c. dolly, to which it is exactly equivalent in meaning. The phonology is opposed to its association with doly a., from dole n.2 In use from the Scottish Border to N. Lincolnshire.]
A. adj. Doleful, miserable, gloomy, lonely.
c1400Destr. Troy 13937 He fell to þe ground All dowly, for dole, in a dede swone. 1674–91Ray N.C. Words 22 Dowly, melancholy, lonely. 1811Willan W. Riding Gloss. (E.D.S.), Dowly, dawly, lonely, sorrowful. 1832Stephenson Gateshead Local Poems 105 When trade grows slack then I Feel my lot quite dowly. 1863Holme Lee A. Warleigh I. 95 ‘It is a dowly, dowly spot, that it is’. 1885Chamb. Jrnl. 575 ‘Ah sir, it was a dowly day for me’.
†B. adv. Sadly, dolefully, lamentably. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 870 Thou dawly bes dede, and I to doll broght. Ibid. 9522 Ded men full dauly droppit to ground. Ibid. 9595 Then Deffibus dauly drogh vp his Ene. |