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English
Verb
donnered
- simple past and past participle of donner
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Adjective
donnered (comparative mair donnered, superlative maist donnered)
- Dazed or stunned; confused.
1899, John Buchan, “The Oasis in the Snow”, in Grey Weather: Moorland Tales of My Own People, John Lane, page 188:Had I been i' my clear senses, I wad hae been rale puzzled about the maitter, but I was donnered wi' the drifts and the weariness, and thocht only o' getting by 't.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Foolish or stupid; daft.
1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Come into My Kingdom”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: (in English), London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 302:"Why, ye donnered auld runt, how else would I ken?" cried Alan.
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Verb
donnered
- simple past tense and past participle of donner