loe
Americannoun
Usage
What does loe mean? Loe is a Scottish, or Scots, term meaning love. Loe, pronounced “loo,” can mean a tender, passionate affection for a person. It can be used as an affectionate name for a loved one. For example, your parents might call you loe or you might call a close friend loe. Loe can also mean to have profound affection for, as in “Ae loe yie,” meaning “I love you.”Example: Yae folk have nae idea hou much Ae loe yie.
Example Sentences
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But oh the honest countryman Speaks truly from his heart, high trolollie lollie loe high trolollie lee, His pride is in his Tillage, his Horses and his Cart: Then care away, and wend along with me.
From The Complete Angler 1653 by Walton, Izaak
Methinks I'll rest me here upon this loe.
From The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays by Hare, Walter Ben
Bread and milk is bairns' meat: I wish them sorrow that loe it.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander
Mattie! to loe sich a mon's maister more'n me!
From Stephen Archer and Other Tales by MacDonald, George
XXV For Gods deare love, Sir knight, do me not stay; For loe he comes, he comes fast after mee.
From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund
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