daunton
Scots
Verb
daunton (third-person singular present dauntons, present participle dauntonin, past dauntont, past participle dauntont)
- scare, daunt
- 1922, John Sillars, The McBrides:
- "Och, it's the lassies will be the pleased ones, coiling the blankets round them; it's Auld Kate that kens," and then she gave a screitchy hooch and began to sing in her cracked thin voice-- 'The man's no' born and he never will be, The man's no born that will daunton me.'
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- 1904, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men:
- Bonny, bairnly braws; it's for the like o' them folk sells the peace of God that passeth understanding; it's for the like o' them, an' maybe no even sae muckle worth, folk daunton God to His face and burn in muckle hell; and it's for that reason the Scripture ca's them, as I read the passage, the accursed thing.
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- 1863, James Fenimore Cooper, Miles Wallingford:
- Chapter XXV. O I hae scarce to lay me on, If kingly fields were ance my ain; Wi' the moor-cock on the mountain-bree, But hardship na'er can daunton me.
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- 1857, Various, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V.:
- I 'm wand'ring wide this wintry night, I 'm wand'ring wide my lane, And mony a langsome, lanesome mile, I 'll measure e'er it 's gane; But lanesome roads or langsome miles, Can never daunton me, When I think on the welcome warm That waits me, love, frae thee.
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- 1780, Robert Burns, Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns:
- The First Instance That Entitled Him To The Venerable Appellation Of Father Thou's welcome, wean; mishanter fa' me, If thoughts o' thee, or yet thy mamie, Shall ever daunton me or awe me, My bonie lady, Or if I blush when thou shalt ca' me Tyta or daddie.
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