Caressing, tender, or pampering; treating with gentle indulgence (dialectal or archaic).
From the verb 'dauk' plus the '-in' or '-ing' ending, creating a participial or adjectival form. This appears primarily in Scottish and Northern English dialects.
The progression from verb 'dauk' to noun 'dauke' to adjective 'daukin' shows how productively English can repurpose the same root—it's like watching a word grow different meanings as it moves through different grammatical roles.
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