dwallow

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verb

To wither or fade, or become yellow or jaundiced.

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Meanings

verbdwallow (third-person singular simple present dwallows, present participle dwallowing, simple past and past participle dwallowed)

present singular third person dwallows · participle present dwallowing · participle past dwallowed · past dwallowed

  1. UKdialectalobsoletepossiblyTo wither or fade, or become yellow or jaundiced.

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

    1864, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, The Lake Country, page 302
    2 more examples

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

    1866, “Relph of Sebergham”, in The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, page 23

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

    1913, Elizabeth Mary Wright, Rustic Speech and Folk-lore, page 318
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dwallow,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dwallow.

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