dwall n also drool, dwoll MED dwle n 'dazed or unconscious condition' (c1400-1450); EDD dwal(l) sb 1 'light slumber' Sh I Nfld. The state of being half-asleep; a slumber.
   1858 [LOWELL] i, 84 Once or twice I falled into a kind of dwall [i.e. doze]. 1895 J A Folklore viii, 28 Dwoll: a state between sleeping and walking, a dozing. A man will say, 'I got no sleep last night, I had only a dwoll.' 1937 DEVINE 19 Drool. A state between sleeping and waking. 'I was asleep, surely, but I 'urd what was goin' on: I was only in a drool.'

Go Back