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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Sweet Singer that I loe the maist O' ony, sin' wi' eager haste I smacket bairn-lips ower the taste O' hinnied sang, I hail thee, though a blessed ghaist In Heaven lang!
From Afterwhiles by Riley, James Whitcomb
P. xlvii. maintes, many. ot, heard. len prise mieulx, esteemed it better. loe, praises. deffera, dis-ironed, drew the weapons out of. lestrief, the stirrup.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
When loe, the dying taper in his toombe, gaue darknes to it selfe and to the roome.
From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Miller, Paul William
Methinks I'll rest me here upon this loe.
From The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays by Hare, Walter Ben
But ye winna get Maggie to merry ye sae long as she disna believe ye loe her Lord as well as she loes him hersel.
From Salted with Fire by MacDonald, George
"My hounds will eat o' the bread o' wheat, And ye of the bread of bran: And then you will sit and sigh,15 That e'er ye loed a man."
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
"A' that wad be naething gien ye loed me, Aggie."
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by MacDonald, George
"I hae aye loed YOU, Aggie," said Cosmo, with some reproach in his tone.
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by MacDonald, George
Nae wonder, nae wonder, Gill Morice, My lady loed thee weel; The fairest part of my bodie115 Is blacker than thy heel.
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
The Tappit Hen contained three quarts of claret— Weel she loed a Hawick gill, And leugh to see a Tappit Hen.
From Guy Mannering by Scott, Walter, Sir
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