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.
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And loe yond he commeth and Merygreeke with him.
From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Edward Arber
But loe an accident after, which neither he nor this audience is priuie too.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Edmund Gosse
O Lord, it is a braw thing to loe ye.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
The ploughman, though he labor hard, Yet on the Holy-day, high trolollie lollie loe high trolollie lee, No Emperor so merrily does pass his time away: Then care away, and wend along with me.
From The Complete Angler 1653 by Izaak Walton
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 Izaak Walton
He was my braw, bonnie lad, and puir auld Elsie loed him better than ye a'!
From The Coward A Novel of Society and the Field in 1863 by Henry Morford
Gien I had loed a lad like Jock, wad I hae latten him gang for a screed o' ill words!
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald
"A' that wad be naething gien ye loed me, Aggie."
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald
"I hae aye loed YOU, Aggie," said Cosmo, with some reproach in his tone.
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald
O Willie, Willie Douglas, mair than ony o' my ain I loed ye.
From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards
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