† dasiberd Obs.
Also dasy-, daysy-, dasa-, dose-, dosa-, dossi-, doziberd(e, dosebeirde.
[The better form is prob. dasyberd = dazy-beard: see dazy a. inert, dull. Mätzner compares LG. dösbârt, and the same notion appears in Lowland Sc. dulbart, dulbert = dull-beard, dullard.]
A stupid fellow, dullard, simpleton.
| c 1400 Sowdone Bab. 1707 Trusse the forth eke, sir Dasa⁓berde. 14.. Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 694/22 Hic duribuccus, a dasyberd. 1468 Medulla Gram. in Promp. Parv. 114 Duribuccus, þat neuer openeþ his mouþ, a dasiberde. ? a 1500 Chester Pl. xii. 5 (MS. of 1592) There is a Doseberd [v.r. Dosseberde] I wolde dear, That walkes about wyde-where. Ibid. 94 Some other sleight I must espie This Dosaberd [v.r. Doziberde] for to destroy. |