the Dawdles
Other OS name in the Parish of Kingerby
Etymology
, cf. close … called Dawdales 1612MiscDep 332 ; great dawdales , little dawdales 1657Red , Dawdles 1842TA , the second el . being probably the pl . of deill ' a share of land ' , earlier forms being needed to determine the etymology of the first . It could be ME dawe ' a jack-daw ' or the surn . Dawe , which is derived from the bird - name , or from a hypocoristic form of the pers. n. David .