- used as a verb, can mean to envy, as in E. C. Smith’s Mang Howes (1925): The flichterin burdies daibbelt an dookeet; an A fair ill-wulled thum o ther plowtereen an ther swattereen. [The fluttering birds dabbled and ducked and I thoroughly envied them their messing about and splashing.]
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