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dauncy, a. U.S. and dial.|ˈdɔːnsɪ|
[var. donsie a.]
Sickly; delicate, not robust.
1846E. W. Farnham Life in Prairie Land (1847) iv. 39, I shall give her enough to eat and wear, and I dont calculate she'll be very daunsey if she gets that. 1874E. Eggleston Circuit Rider vi. 61 You look powerful dauncy, said the old man. 1880W. H. Patterson Antrim & Down Gloss. 31 Donsy, Dauncey, sick, sick-looking. 1891M. E. Ryan Pagan of Alleghanies v. 82 He ain't one o' yer skim-milk, dauncy ones. He's as stout as a young bull. 1912I. S. Cobb Back Home 148 He looks sort of dauncy and low in his mind. 1926E. M. Roberts Time of Man (1927) iv. 152 Dorine said that he must be sick. ‘He looks dauncy,’ she said. Ibid. x. 377 ‘Pap he's sick today,’ Joe said. ‘I see that. He's dauncy all day.’ |