laigh
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of laigh
1325–75; Middle English (Scots). See low 1
Example Sentences
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Thro' the Lawlands, o'er the border, Weel, my babie, may thou furder: succeed Herry the louns o' the laigh countree, Harry, rascals, low Syne to the Highlands hame to me.
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan
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 Flom, George Tobias
Well, laigh i' your lug, sir - the clue was found.
From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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, written by himself by Moir, David Macbeth
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 Hardie, Charles Martin
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