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Cuckoo, or Guckoo. Add .—(2) A fool. N. & S.W. 



Cuckoo-flower. (3) Oxalis acetosella, L., Woodsorrel. 

 CuckoO-laillb. A lamb born out of season or in May. S.W. (Shrewton.) 

 Cuckoo's mate. Yunx 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. 

 " I'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. 

 *Dabbynoillter. A dirty person— Notes and Queries, 6th Aug., 1881. 



Unknown to us, but perhaps a variant of Drab-anointed. 

 Dag. To stab. N.W. (Clyffe Pypard, Potterne, etc.) 



Dane. 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. 



Dap Upon. To pounce down upon, unawares. N. & S.W. 



Darling. The smallest or weakest pig of a litter. N. & S.W. 



DelticupS. Ranunculus repens, L., Creeping Buttercup. S.W. (Shrewton.) 



*Detter (P 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 same meaning, in the 

 Eastern Counties : and " Dew-piece," a hunch of bread given early in the 

 morning. 



DeW-pond. Add :— S.W. (Deverill, etc.) 



Dill-dill. The usual call to ducks. N. & S.W. 



Ding-dong. " He went at I ding-dong," i.e., hammer-and-tongs. N. & S.W. 

 Dishabille. Add .—S.W. (Deverill.) 



Distinguishes An extinguisher for a candle was always so called formerly 



in N. Wilts. 

 Dipper. Podiceps minor, Little Grebe. 



Doom. Add:— Durns. (Hist, of Chipp.) N. & S.W. 



*Dot. " A Dot and a Don," a change of clothes. (Hist, of Chipp.) " Pot " 

 is probably ^a corruption of doff. N.W. (Chippenham.) 



