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"ref": "1788 [1886], Robert Burns, “To Dawt on Me”, in The Complete Works of Robert Burns, volume 2, Kessinger, published 2004, page 163",
"text": "To dawt on me, and me sae young, / Wi' his fause heart and flatt'ring tongue, / That is the thing you shall never see, / For an auld man shall never dawt on me.",
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{
"ref": "c. 18th century, Some Say Kissing's A Sin; republished in Thomas Crawford, editor, Love, Labour, and Liberty: the eighteenth-century Scottish lyric, Carcanet Press, 1976, page 79",
"text": "Let him kiss her, clap her, and dawt her, / And gie her benevolence due, / And that will a thrifty wife mak her, / And sae I'll bid farewell to you.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1882–1896, Francis James Child, “Number 277: The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin”, in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads",
"text": "He courted her and he brought her hame, / An thought she would prove a thrifty dame. / She could nether spin nor caird, / But sit in her chair and dawt the laird.",
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"To fondle or caress."
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"(Scotland) To fondle or caress."
],
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"word": "faddle"
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"word": "grope"
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"word": "pettle"
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{
"word": "tiddle"
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{
"word": "fondle"
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"word": "daut"
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
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