dwam
Scots edit
Etymology edit
Later form of dwalm.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dwam (uncountable)
- faint, swoon; fainting fit
- a trance or daydreaming state
- 2003, Anne Donovan, Buddha Da:
- Ah was in such a dwam that ah'd nearly walked past him […]
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- 2017, Bernard MacLaverty, “Chapter 10”, in Midwinter Break (in English), page 192:
- He waited and let Stella onto the escalator first and stood behind her as they ascended to the airport. She seemed in a dwam as she was being carried upwards, one hand resting on the black rubber banister.
Verb edit
dwam