laik
Britishverb
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to play (a game, etc)
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(intr) to be on holiday, esp to take a day off work
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(intr) to be unemployed
Etymology
Origin of laik
C14: leiken, from Old Norse leika; related to Old English lacan to manoeuvre; compare lark ²
Example Sentences
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Sapos yu sorri long ol dispela pikinini na yu laik givim liklik moni bilong halivim ol, yu ken givim long kommitti bilong yu or biringim sitaret igo long Distrik officer long Kiap.
From Time Magazine Archive
"If yoh doan mind, I'd laik to fix up yoh section; got so much to do won't git through 'fore midnight."
From Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter by Tileston, Merrill
Why, it feel laik somebody done gone an' stick a icicle down mah back, that's what it do, fo' suah!
From The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska by Webster, Frank V.
The following variant spellings will show this: hame, haim, haym; stain, stane, stayne; hal, hale, hail, hayle; lak, lake, laik, layk; blake, blaik, blayk, etc., etc.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
An' de train rocks so, laik a cradle, dat I done most upsot ebery time.
From The Bobbsey Twins at Home by Hope, Laura Lee
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