dautie, dawtie Sc.
(ˈdɔːtɪ)
Also dawty.
[f. prec. or its source: but a formation with the dim. and appellative -ie, -y, from a verb, is unusual.]
A person caressed or indulged; a darling, pet, favourite.
| 1676 J. Fraser Autobiog. in Select. Biog. (Wodrow Soc.) II. 89, I was no dawty. 1727 P. Walker Remark. Passages 122 (Jam.) Giving an account of old Quintin Dick, one of his Dawties. 1823 Galt Entail I. xix. 156, ‘I hae thought o' that, Girzy, my dawty’, said he. |