leiough
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Irish luigh (“to lie”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
leiough
- (figurative) to idle
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Leiough ut ee die.
- Idle out the day.
References edit
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52