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单词 dowie
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dowieadj.

Brit. /ˈdaʊi/, U.S. /ˈdaʊi/, Scottish English /ˈdʌʊɪ/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s dolly; also dowy.
Etymology: The identity of dowie with l6th cent. dolly appears to be proved by the treatment of the two as variants in Gawain Douglas. Probably a derivative of Middle English dol , doll , Old English dol , dull adj., with -y or -ly ; compare also dully n., used in same sense, and Old English hál, hálig, holy.
Scottish and northern dialect.
Dull and lonely, melancholy, dreary, dismal.
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?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 52 Now done is my dolly [a1586 dullit] nyght, my day is vpsprungin.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vii. Prol. 51 The dowy dichis [1553 dolly dikis] war all donk and wait.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. x 102 And end his dolly days, and de.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. iv. 73 The dolly tonys [1553 douy tones] and lays lamentabill.
1581 R. Sempill Complaint vpon Fortoun (single sheet) In Striuiling toun out of his dowie den..thay fyrit him in his nest.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) I. 26 What dowy hours I thole by your disdain.
1790 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum III. 218 I wander dowie up the glen.
1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 78 She kiss'd them, till her lips grew red, On the dowie houms of Yarrow.
a1851 D. M. Moir Disenchantment xiii, in Poet. Wks. (1852) The dowie dens of Yarrow.
1890 Scot. Liberal 14 Feb. 11 Dark valleys and dowie dens of ignorance.

Derivatives

ˈdowily adv.
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?17.. Twa Brithers xi, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1884) I. ii. xlix. 439/2 Sae dowilie alane.
1801 H. Macneill Poet. Wks. II. 87 Lying down dowylie, sigh'd by the willow tree.
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ˈdowiness n.
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