Dingle-dousie is Scots for a stick or piece of peat lit at one end and waved quickly to make an arc of light, a children’s plaything something like a sparkler. The Scots National Dictionary also records a related sense, an active, bustling person...
The verb duffifie is defined in the Scots National Dictionary as “to lay down a bottle on its side for some time, after its contents have been poured out, that it may be completely drained of the few drops remaining in it.” This is part...