dwaaln.
/dwɑːl/, U.S. /dwɑl/, South African English /dwɑːl/ South African.
A dreamy, dazed, or absent-minded state. Frequently in in a dwaal and variants.
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1957 U. Krige in Proc. Conf. Writers, Publishers, Editors, & Univ. Teachers Eng. (Univ. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) 87 He is in a ‘dwaal’—meaning in a daze, a maze, lost, wandering, he does not know what he's doing, etc.
1984 S. Clouts in Eng. in Afr. Oct. 33 I didn't know how to end the poem. I was walking around in an absolute dwaal.
2014 C. Radmann Crack 8 She had..murmured in her half-awake, half-asleep dwaal.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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