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haste; agitation; confusion. — Prop. the same word as the foregoing.

drive, vb., to drive, sometimes in some applications handed down from Norn, used somewhat diff. from Eng. drive; thus: to d., or d. at somet’in’ [‘-thing’], to work or to be occupied with something; de young men never drave [‘drove’] de haf like de auld [‘old’] men, the young men did not attach importance to deep-sea fishing as the old men did (L.); what does du d. at? what is your work? (Uⁿ.). Thus: No. driva paa, Fær. dríva uppá, Da. drive på.

drivl, drivel [drɩvəl], sb., a slovenly, dirty, negligent person, a dirty d. U. *drifl, n. See drivl, vb.

drivl, drivel [drɩvəl], vb., to dawdle; to be or go slovenly and untidily, to geng drivlin. U. *drifla. Cf. No. drivla, vb., to saunter; dawdle, and Shetl. drevl (drefl), vb.

drivla [drɩvla], sb., a slovenly, dirty, negligent woman. U. *drifla, f. See drivl, vb.

drivlet [drɩvlət], adj., slovenly; dirty and negligent (in appearance), a d.-lookin’ bein’. U. *driflóttr. See drivl, vb.

drof, sb., see druf, sb.

drofs, sb. and vb., and drofset, adj., see drufs and drufset.

drog [drōg], sb., a person who is constantly carrying heavy burdens, a drudge (Uⁿ.), almost = droger. *drag. Cf. No. drag, n., a being that drags itself along (d. 12 in R.).

drog¹ [drōg], vb., 1) (to drag), to carry a heavy burden, to d. a heavy burden; to “d. on”; N.Sh. 2) to walk heavily and slowly, to come drogin and dratsin behint, to come slowly, toiling behind (Uⁿ.). 3) of an animal: to be in a state of utter exhaustion, esp. by long pregnancy; de baess [‘beast’] is drogin, shø [‘she’] is still drogin: when a cow is on the point of calving, esp. when

she is going over her time; Nm.; De. 4) to work a long time at something without being able to finish it, to d. upon a wark [‘work’]; U. — O.N. draga, vb., to drag; pull; also to postpone; No. draga etter, to come toiling behind.

drog² [drōg], vb., see trog¹, vb.

droger [drōgər], sb., a carrier, one who carries heavy burdens, a peat-d. (Wh.). From drog¹, vb. Cf. “water-droger”.

drogg¹ [drɔg(g), drȯg(g)], sb., a person who drags himself along, a slow person, a d. o’ a body. Fe. and Y. occas. [drɔg(g)]. Ai. [drȯg(g)]. See drogg, vb.

drogg² [drȯg(g)], sb., see dragg, sb.

drogg [drɔg(g), drȯg(g)], vb., to drag oneself along, to walk very slowly, to d. awa [‘away’] (Ai.), to come droggin behint (Fe.; Y.). Fe. and Y. occas. [drɔg(g)]. Ai. [drȯg(g)]. No. dragga, vb., to drag oneself forward (deriv. of draga), and drugga, vb., to walk wearily. Cf. drog¹, vb.

drogget [drȯg(g)ət], adj., 1) rainy, continuously drizzling, a d. kind o’ a day; Wests. 2) wet through; soaking wet, partly = djolkin (see dalk, djalk, vb.); Sa. — Deriv. of drogg², sb.; see dragg, sb.

droggisom [drȯg··ɩsȯm·], adj.. = drogget 1; a d. day, a rainy day. St.

droin and droind, vb., see dronj, vb.

droinet, adj., see dronjet, adj.

*droita [drȯita], verbal-form appearing in the version of a riddle about the cow, noted down in Fe.: …etom oita d, something (viz. the tail) comes lagging behind. *drattar (or *drattandi). O.N. dratta, vb., to walk heavily and slowly. Cf. drill¹, vb., and the use of this word in the same riddle.

droiti [drȯi‘ti], sb., a name given jocularly to an old object of little value, noted down in the sense of an old clay-pipe. U^w. Prob. derived