daown

daown

1. Pronunciation spelling of down.
   • 1869, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Folks, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 326:

     " […] ye must jest come right daown to plain livin'. How many servants d'yeh say they kep' […] "

   • 1882, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Christowell. A Dartmoor Tale. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 147:

     "Her ladyship, Lady Tichwudd; I knowed that bragian boy in front, as looketh daown on his own kearful moother. No room for he, in my kitchen. I was vorced to box the ears of 'un, last time."

   • 1893, Fannie E[llsworth] Newberry, The Odd One, Boston, Mass.: A. I. Bradley & Company, →OCLC, page 74:

     the new Californians, hailing directly from "daown east,"

   • 1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC, page 148:

     “Y’ ever hear what Sim’on Peter Ca’houn said when they whacked up a match ’twix’ his sister Hitty an’ Lorin’ Jerauld, an’ the boys put up that joke on him daown to Georges?” drawled Uncle Salters

   • 1901 May, Winston Churchill, The Crisis, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, book I, page 37:

     " […] They do treat 'em nefarious daown thah on the wholesale plantations. […] "

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