"dawt" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dawts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dawting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dawted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dawted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dawt (third-person singular simple present dawts, present participle dawting, simple past and past participle dawted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fondle or caress."
      ],
      "id": "en-dawt-en-verb-BHhosTLK",
      "links": [
        [
          "fondle",
          "fondle"
        ],
        [
          "caress",
          "caress"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) To fondle or caress."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "faddle"
        },
        {
          "word": "grope"
        },
        {
          "word": "pettle"
        },
        {
          "word": "tiddle"
        },
        {
          "word": "fondle"
        },
        {
          "word": "daut"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dawt"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dawts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dawting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dawted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dawted",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dawt (third-person singular simple present dawts, present participle dawting, simple past and past participle dawted)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fondle or caress."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fondle",
          "fondle"
        ],
        [
          "caress",
          "caress"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) To fondle or caress."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "faddle"
    },
    {
      "word": "grope"
    },
    {
      "word": "pettle"
    },
    {
      "word": "tiddle"
    },
    {
      "word": "fondle"
    },
    {
      "word": "daut"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dawt"
}