300 Contributions towards a Wiltshire - Glossary. 
gwo too nigh thuck there chap; he’ve a had the smallpox, and the dain be 
in his clothes still.’ (Cunnington US.) 
Daps. Add :—‘ Dap, a hop, aturn. The daps of any one would therefore 
be his habits, peculiarities, etc.” —Jennings, Somerset Gloss. 
*Dar. x. “To be struck in a dar,” to be astonished or confounded.”— 
(Cunnington MS.) N.W., obsolete. 
Apparently from O.E. dare, to frighten birds. “ Never hobby so dared 
a lark.”—Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. 
*Daver. To fade, fall down, droop, as flowers or leaves on a hot day. N.W. 
(Malmesbury.) 
Devil’s-rin g. Add :—* Devyls-gold-rynge, the colewort worme.”—Hulvet. 
“Oak-egger and fox moths, which children call ‘Devil’s Gold Rings.’” 
—Kingsley, Chalk-stream Studies. 
Diggled, Daggled . Covered over orhung thickly with anything. Compare 
Daglet. “Thick may-bush be aal diggled wi’ berries.” S.W.(Salisbury.) 
Also * Diggle as a verb. “They weeds be a coming up agen as 
fast as ever they can diggle.” N.W. (Potterne.) 
Dog Cocks. Arum maculatum, L., Cuckoo-pint. Compare Dogs-dibble 
in N. Devon. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Doner. A man, animal, etc., “done for” and past hope. ‘ Thuck old sow 
be a doner ; her’ll be dead afore night.” (N.W.) 
*Dooke. Add:— Obsolete, having been superseded by do’ee. It was pro- 
nounced as a dissyllable.’””—Skeat. 
Douse. ‘This word should be omitted, being mainly nautical. ~ 
Down. Totire out, to exhaust. “ That there ’oss’s downed.” N.W.(Wroughton.) 
Drieth. Add:—“1633. The cryer . . . . to give warninge to the 
inhabitants to sett payles of water at their doores in the late tyme of drieth 
and heate.’—Records of Chippenham, p. 206. 
Drock. (1) Add :—This is often made with a hollow tree. 
* (2) Add:—‘1674. Item Paid Richard Serrell for a Stone to make a 
Drocke.”— Records of Chippenham, p. 230. 
Dudman. A scarecrow. N.W. (Malmesbury.) 
Dumb-Ague. A kind of ague which is not accompanied by the usual shaking 
fits. ‘*’Tis what ’ee do caal the dumb-agey.” N.W. (Clyffe Pypard.) 
Dunch. (1) Add:—In Cunnington MS. said to be at that time the usual 
N. Wilts term for deaf. 
*Koos-eggs. Add:—Perhaps more directly derived from a perversion of 
Hedge-pegs, 4.v. 
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