laigh
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of laigh
1325–75; Middle English (Scots). See low 1
Example Sentences
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If you be angry, sit laigh and mease you.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
I’ll set me down and sing and spin, While laigh descends the simmer sun, Blest wi’ content, and milk and meal— O leeze me on my spinning-wheel!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Out cam the gudeman, and laigh he louted; Out cam the gudewife, and heigh she shouted; And a the toun-neibours gather’d about it; And there he lay, I trow.
From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Charles Martin Hardie
I'll ne'er lout sae laigh an' lift sae little.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
O. N. ā + g > aw, awch, aigh, aich, awsome, law, sb. law, adj. lawch, beside laigh and laich in N. Sco.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
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