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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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 Walton, Izaak
To recompence our Tillage, The Heavens afford us showrs; high trolollie lollie loe high trolollie lee, And for our sweet refreshments the earth affords us bowers: Then care away, &c.
From The Complete Angler 1653 by Walton, Izaak
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 Arber, Edward
Methinks I'll rest me here upon this loe.
From The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays by Hare, Walter Ben
The ploughman, though he labour hard, Yet on the holiday Heigh trolollie, lollie loe.
From Old English Sports, Pastimes and Customs by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
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