“Yir an eejit! Ah’m gi’en ye this hat caus yir ah dozie dovie dottered dowf.”
Translate:
dovie: stupid, barely awake.
“You’re an idiot! I’m giving you this hat because you’re a stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid person.”
![[dovie spelled out in the phonetic alphabet.]](/comics/phonetics/dovieph.gif){kind=small}
The Scottish Word: dovie with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context in the Scots language and in English.
I always thought that dovy was the correct spelling, but dovie looks OK too. O would use it about myself if I recognised that I had been slow on the uptake, as in “I’m a bit dovy today”