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Cuckoo, or Guckoo. Add :—(2) A fool. N. & S.W. 
Cuckoo-flower. (3) Owalis acetosella, L., Woodsorrel. 
Cuckoo-lamb. A lamb born out of season or in May. S.W. (Shrewton.) 
Cuckoo’s mate. Yune torquilla, Wryneck. N.W. (Marlboro’.) 
Cutty. Add :—Sometimes Scutty in N. Wilts. 
Cutter-lug. The bar formerly used to suspend a pot over the hearth. N.W. 
Dab. To daub with clay or mortar, as a wall, bird’s nest, etc. N. & S.W. 
“T’ll warn as thur’ll be eggs in he afore many days, for he’s wet a dabbin,” 
said by a boy on finding the mud lining of a thrush’s nest nearly finished. 
*Dabbynointer. A dirty person—Wotes and Queries, 6th Aug., 1881. 
- Unknown to us, but perhaps a variant of Drab-anointed. 
9 ag. To stab. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, Potterne, etc.) 
Vane. Add :—About Chippenham, Calne, and Melksham, it is frequently said 
of a red-haired man that he is “crossed wi’ the Danes.” 
Dap-about. To trip about lightly. N. & S.W. 
ny ap upon. To pounce down upon, unawares. N. & S.W. 
1) arling. The smallest or weakest pig of a litter. N. & S.W. 
elticups. Ranunculus repens, L., Creeping Buttercup. §8.W. (Shrewton.) 
‘Detter (? Debtor). A game of “Touch,” N.W. (Potterne.) 
Dewbit. Add :—Akerman’s suggestion that it is so called because eaten while 
the dew is still on the grass is of very doubtful authority. It is most 
probably ‘‘ Due-bit,” the piece of bread given by custom to the labourer, 
when he had to go early to work. Cp. “ Dew-cup,” the first allowance of beer 
to harvest-men in Hants: “ Dew-drink,” with the samc meaning, in the 
Eastern Counties: and “ Dew-piece,” a hunch of bread given early in the 
morning. 
Dill-dil. The usual call to ducks. N. & S.W. 
D Jing-dong. “ He went at I ding-dong,” 7.e., hammer-and-tongs. N. & S.W. 
Dishabille. Add :—s.W. (Deverill.) : 
D stinguisher. An extinguisher for a candle was always so called formerly 
in N. Wilts. 
Doorn. Add: -—Durns. (Hist. of “ae N. & S.W. 
Dp Ot. “A Dot and a Don,” a change of clothes. (Hist. of Chipp.) “Dot” 
__ is probably a corruption of dof N.W. (Chippenham.) 
