dovern.

Brit.

/ˈdəʊvə/, U.S.

/ˈdoʊvər/, Scottish English

/ˈdovər/

Etymology: < dover v.

Scottish and northern dialect.

‘A slumber, a slight unsettled sleep’ (Jamieson).

ΚΠ

1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 203 (Jam.) My mother had laid down ‘th' Afflicted Man's Companion’, with which she had read the guidman into a sort o' dover.

1880 J. F. S. Gordon Bk. Chron. Keith 32 Get a dover in the day time.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

doverv.

Brit.

/ˈdəʊvə/, U.S.

/ˈdoʊvər/, Scottish English

/ˈdovər/

Etymology: apparently a frequentative of dialect dove in same sense; compare Old English dofung dotage, also Old Norse dofna, Gothic daubnan, to become heavy, flat, or dead.

Scottish and northern dialect.

1. transitive. To send off into a light slumber; to stun, stupefy. rare.But in first quot. it may be past participle of the intransitive sense.

ΚΠ

1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados vi. vi. 12 This is the hale richt Of gaystis schaddois, slepe and douerit mycht.

1853 Fraser's Mag. 48 695 The powder that dovers the unhappy off to sleep.

2. intransitive. ‘To slumber, to be in a state betwixt sleeping and waking’ (Jamieson), to doze.

ΚΠ

1806 A. Douglas Poems 139 (Jam.) She was begun to dover.

1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Dec. (1939) 289 With great intervals of drowsiness and fatigue which made me, as we Scots say, dover away in my arm-chair.

1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) ‘Dinna scranch on the floor; yor fethor's just dover't.’

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dover
释义	dovern. Brit. /ˈdəʊvə/, U.S. /ˈdoʊvər/, Scottish English /ˈdovər/ Etymology: < dover v. Scottish and northern dialect. ‘A slumber, a slight unsettled sleep’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 203 (Jam.) My mother had laid down ‘th' Afflicted Man's Companion’, with which she had read the guidman into a sort o' dover. 1880 J. F. S. Gordon Bk. Chron. Keith 32 Get a dover in the day time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). doverv. Brit. /ˈdəʊvə/, U.S. /ˈdoʊvər/, Scottish English /ˈdovər/ Etymology: apparently a frequentative of dialect dove in same sense; compare Old English dofung dotage, also Old Norse dofna, Gothic daubnan, to become heavy, flat, or dead. Scottish and northern dialect. 1. transitive. To send off into a light slumber; to stun, stupefy. rare.But in first quot. it may be past participle of the intransitive sense. ΚΠ 1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados vi. vi. 12 This is the hale richt Of gaystis schaddois, slepe and douerit mycht. 1853 Fraser's Mag. 48 695 The powder that dovers the unhappy off to sleep. 2. intransitive. ‘To slumber, to be in a state betwixt sleeping and waking’ (Jamieson), to doze. ΚΠ 1806 A. Douglas Poems 139 (Jam.) She was begun to dover. 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Dec. (1939) 289 With great intervals of drowsiness and fatigue which made me, as we Scots say, dover away in my arm-chair. 1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) ‘Dinna scranch on the floor; yor fethor's just dover't.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1820v.1553
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