(transitive, UK dialectal) To assuage; soften; mitigate; relieve; calm; alleviate (pain).

A diminutive of the male given name David, also used as a formal given name. / A surname from Gujarati from Sanskrit द्विवेदिन् (dvivedin, “(one who has studied) two Vedas”).

simple past tense and past participle of dave

present participle of dave

(UK) A far left radical.

(Australia, colloquial, now chiefly historical) Remote rural farmers resembling the characters in Steele Rudd's "Dad and Dave" stories, especially seen as unsophisticated.

plural of Dave Spart

plural of Dad and Dave

A market town in Northamptonshire, England.

A diminutive of the male given name David. / A surname originating as a patronymic derived from David. / A village in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.