dwam
/dwɑːm
/noun chiefly Scottish
A state of semi-consciousness or reverie: lying in bed, in the dwam before sleep he had brooded himself into a black dwam...
- His left-foot drive caught Gordon Marshall in a dwam of indecision and the goalkeeper's effort could only aid the progress of the ball over the line.
Origin
Early 16th century: from the Germanic base of dwell; compare with Middle Dutch dwelm 'stupefaction', also with Old English dwolma 'confusion'.
- do someone/thing down
- do someone/thing justice
- do someone to death
- do someone up
- do someone wrong
- do something for one's country (or England etc.)
- do something in
- do something (or nothing) for
- do something out
- do something over
- do something to death
- do something until (or till) one is blue in the face
- do something up
- Dos Passos, John
- doss
- dossal
- dosser
- dosseret
- dosshouse
- dossier
- dost
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Dostoyevsky
- dos-à-dos
- dot