Meaning of dwallow | Babel Free

Definitions

To wither or fade, or become yellow or jaundiced.

UK, dialectal, obsolete, possibly

Examples

“... a flower dwallows, so does a sick and fading child.”

“Sweet is this kiss as smell of dwallowed hay, / Or the fresh primrose on the first of May;”

“If it sud rain on St. Swithin's Day, / We're feckly sarrat [served] wi' dwallow'd hay (Cum.).”

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