mazidawk

mazidawk
   A Devonshire dialect term used by Henry Williamson in A Dream of Fair Women, where a boy says it to his drunken father. ‘Mazi-’ is a form of ‘mazy’, meaning giddy, confused. The ‘-dawk’ is a short form of ‘dawkin’, a diminutive of ‘daw’, ‘fool, simpleton’.

A dictionary of epithets and terms of address . . 2015.

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  • dawbake —    Special terms of address sometimes live on in dialects. There are several examples of ancient Devonshire terms in Dandelion Days, by Henry Williamson. An old woman screams at a man: ‘Ye girt dawbake. Master grawbey! Thou girt loobey.’… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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