laigh
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of laigh
1325–75; Middle English (Scots). See low 1
Example Sentences
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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 Sidgwick, Frank
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
It’s a lang, laigh, mirk chalmer, perishin’ cauld in winter, an’ no very dry even in the tap o’ the simmer, for the manse stands near the burn.
From Merry Men by Stevenson, Robert Louis
If you be angry, sit laigh and mease you.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
He maun lout that has a laigh door.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
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