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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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 Paul William Miller
There loe, suche a lustie bragge it is ye must make.
From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Edward Arber
"Far better I loe that bluidy head, Bot and that zellow hair, Than Lord Barnard, and a' his lands, As they lig here and thair."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
The furious flames of loue, that neuer ceaseth sure, Are loe the busie sailes and oares, that would my rest procure, And as in Skies, great windes do blo, My swift desires runnes, fleeting so.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
And loe yond the olde nourse that was wyth vs last day.
From Roister Doister Written, probably also represented, before 1553. Carefully edited from the unique copy, now at Eton College by Edward Arber
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 Sir Walter Scott
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
Yet she had twa as fu fair sonsAs eer brake manis bread,And the tane of them loed her White Lilly,And the tither lood Rose the Red.
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
Then came Bassanio, the lad fra Veeneece, that Porsha loed in secret.
From Christie Johnstone by Charles Reade
"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
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