dauncy

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English

Etymology

From Scots donsie.

Adjective

dauncy (comparative more dauncy, superlative most dauncy)

  1. (US, regional) Sick; delicate.
    • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 71:
      I had a dauncy spell but no one heard me over the wind.