laigh
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of laigh
1325–75; Middle English (Scots). See low 1
Example Sentences
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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 David Macbeth Moir
Ower high, ower laigh, ower het, ower cauld.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
He’s courted her in the kitchen, He’s courted her in the ha’, He’s courted her in the laigh cellar, And that was warst of a’.
From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick
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
Doon frae Jerus'lem a traveller took The laigh road to Jericho; It had an ill name an' mony a crook, It was lang an' unco how.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
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