Scottish dialect: a dull, spiritless, or contemptible person; someone lacking energy or courage.
Combination of Scottish 'dowf' (dull, spiritless) plus '-art' (a suffix used pejoratively), creating a derogatory term for a dull person.
This wonderfully harsh Scottish insult combines 'dowf' with '-art' to create a word that sounds almost comical to modern ears, but was genuinely cutting in its original context as an attack on someone's character.
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