different between dod vs dowd

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From Irish dod (“sullenness, anger”).

Noun

dod (plural dods)

1. (Ulster) sulk, huff

Etymology 2

From Scots daud (“large piece”).

Noun

dod (plural dods)

1. (Ireland) lump

Etymology 3

From Middle English dodden.

Alternative forms

• dodd

Verb

dod (third-person singular simple present dods, present participle dodding, simple past and past participle dodded)

1. (transitive) to cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off

Anagrams

• -odd, DDO, ODD, odd

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /d???d??/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d???d??/

Etymology 1

Related to Scottish Gaelic dod; both are of uncertain origin, perhaps imitative.

Noun

dod m (genitive singular doid)

1. sullenness, anger
2. restiveness

Declension

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• ad, dod', dot

Contraction

dod (triggers lenition)

1. (Munster) Contraction of do do (“to your sg, for your sg”).

Related terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "dod" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “dod”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “dod” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “dod” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911) , “dod”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, ?ISBN, page dod

Latvian

Verb

dod

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of dot
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of dot
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of dot
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of dot
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of dot
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of dot

Welsh

Alternative forms

• dyfod (literary)
• d?ad (North Wales)

Etymology

From older, now literary, dyfod, from Middle Welsh dyuot. A highly suppletive verb. The verbal noun is from dy- +? bod (“to be”). The other forms are from Proto-Celtic *toageti, itself also a suppletive verb (stemming from *h?e?- and *pelh?-). See also Old Irish do·aig (“to drive off”). See also mynd, which inherited the unprefixed counterparts of this verb. The second-person singular imperative forms additionally stem from a prefixed form of *reteti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?d/

Verb

dod (first-person singular present dof)

1. to come

Conjugation

Derived terms

• dod â (“to bring”)
• dod o hyd (“to find”)

Mutation

English

Etymology

Back-formation from dowdy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Noun

dowd (plural dowds)

1. (archaic) A dowdy person, especially a woman; a frump.
   • 1913, Henry Sydnor Harrison, V. V.'s Eyes, Chapter XI:

     He, of course, was only an unbalanced religious fanatic, whose opinions were not of the slightest consequence to anybody, whom everybody seemed to take a dislike to at sight (except ignorant paupers like the Cooneys), and whose ideal type of girl would probably be some hideous dowd, a slum-worker, a Salvation Army lassie, perhaps.

   • 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, Chapter II:

     "You wouldn't have me a dowd, Olaf?" said she, demurely. "I have to be neat and tidy, you know. You wouldn't have me going about in a continuous state of unbuttonedness and black bombazine like Mrs. Rabbet, would you?"

   • 1920, May Edginton, Married Life, or The True Romance, Chapter XVI:

     Marie was still away upon her trail. "I don't really let myself go as much as you might think. I'm always dressed for breakfast, if I've been up half the night; I don't allow myself to be slovenly. And however I've had to hurry over putting the children to bed, and cooking dinner and things, I always change my blouse and put on my best slippers before Osborn comes in. I feel—at home I feel as if I look quite nice; but when I come out of it"—she indicated her surroundings—"I realise I'm just a dowd who's fast losing what looks she had. When I come out, and see others, I—I know I can't compete. It makes you almost afraid to come out. And Osborn—while I'm at home, plodding along, you see, he's out, seeing the others all the time. He sees them in the restaurants, and they pass him in the street—girls as I used to be."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dowd.

Welsh

Alternative forms

• daethpwyd
• deuwyd
• doed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dou?d/

Verb

dowd

1. (literary) preterite impersonal of dod

Mutation