Define:Doof

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doof (third-person singular simple present doofs, present participle doofin, simple past an past participle doofed, dooft)

[1] (transitive) an (intransitive) tae ding wi somethin saft, tae dunt, tae scone, tae stot (aff o)^[1]

A juist flung ma bottle o ginger, an as fortune had it, A dooft it right aff his dome.

— Gordon Bellford (Robert Florence) Burnistoun (Series 1, Episode 1)^[2]

She gave me one across the snoot / She dowfed me ower to Miss M'Phee, / Wha dowfed me back to Bell again.

- A Played Yestreen A Pretty Ploy [poem], Elgin Courant and Morayshire Advertiser, Juin 18t 1869^[3]

Conjugation o doof
Infinite forms
infinitive	(fir tae) doof
present participle	doofin
past participle	doofed, dooft
Finite forms
		simple present	narrative present	simple past
first-person singular	A	doof, doofs^{[N 1]}	doofs	doofed, dooft
seicont-person singular	ye/you	doof, doofs^{[N 1]}
seicont-person sg. intimate^{[N 2]}	du/thoo	doofs
third-person singular	he/she/(h)it	doofs
first-person plural	we	doof, doofs^{[N 1]}
seicont-person plural	yese/youse
seicont-person pl. collective^{[N 3]}	awyese/awyouse
third-person plural	thay	doof, doofs^{[N 1]}
↑ ^a ^b ^c Gin the Northern Subject Rule is uised. ↑ Intimate form uised in Shetland (du) an Orkney (thoo). ↑ Awyese/awyouse is fur whan ye'r referin tae a hale collective o fowk insteid o multiple fowk individual-like. For exemple, askin "Are yese awa?" will gie ye different repones fae different fowk, whaur "Are awyese awa?" will git ye ae repone fae somebody representin 'e hale boorach.

↑ "Dictionary of the Scots Language:: SND :: dowf". Retrieved 6 December 2020.
↑ "Burnistoun - Bottle of Ginger" (video). www.bbc.co.uk. 2 Juin 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
↑ "La Teste" (18 Juin 1869). "I Played Yestreen a Pretty Ploy". Elgin Courant, and Morayshire Advertiser. Retrieved 6 December 2020.