loun

American  

[loon] / lun /

noun

Scot.

1. loon.

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Example Sentences

"The soft season, the firmament serene, The loun illuminate air, and firth amene The silver-scalit fishes on the grete O'er-thwart clear streams sprinkillond for the heat," —Gawin Douglas.

From Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Wha first shall rise to gang awa, A cuckold coward loun is he: Wha last beside his chair shall fa’, He is the king amang us three.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

A lord may be a lousy loun, Wi’ ribbon, star, an’ a’ that.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

I pointed to my faither's ha'— Yon bonnie bield ayont the shaw, Sae loun that there nae blast could blaw:— Wad she no bide in Gowrie?

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

The carline she was stark and sture, She aff the hinges dang the dure; "O is your bairn to laird or loun, Or is it to your father's groom?"

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various