Skip to content
The Language of the Scottish Traveller: A Dictionary
By Pauline Cairns Speitel
Search for:
Search
Results
daot
,
daet
,
dhout
noun
a stupid idiot
20-
.
etymology:
origin obscure; perhaps related to Scots
doit
‘a stupid person, a fool’; form
daet
attested in Shelta with the same meaning; collected by
TN
; form
dhout
attested in Beurla Reagaird