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
Winds, laik everything else, are amenable to control, if you only know how to control them.
From The Way of the Wind by Zoe Anderson Norris
Confound these spec's, I cain't see 'em skacely; huh, you say dey's neck an' neck; now I see 'em! now I see 'em! and Jimmy's a-ridin' like——Huh, huh, I laik to said sumpin'.
From The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Well, maybe it would a' bin all right, but dat piece ob paper come unpinned offen me, an' I got losted, same laik you'd lose a trunk.
From Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Aunt Lu's City Home by Laura Lee Hope
He done come up heah t' go fishin' laik he go t' lots other places, though he ain't been heah fo' good many years.
From The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Chester K. Steele
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