dowf

Meaning

1. Dull; flat; denoting a defect of spirit, animation, or courage; melancholy; gloomy; inactive; listless; lethargic; pithless; vapid; lacking force; frivolous.
2. Dull; hollow.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English:

Cognate with Icelandic: daufur

Cognate with Old English: dēaf

In summary

From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse daufr (“deaf”) (whence also Icelandic daufur (“deaf, dull”)), from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“deaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰūbʰ-, *dʰūp- (“to smoke”). Doublet of dof. Cognate with Old English dēaf (“deaf”). Compare dove ("to slumber"). More at deaf.