loun

American  

[loon] / lun /

noun

Scot.

1. loon.

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loun

I no sabe Dicky; he allee time lun loun camp; I no look; too muchee work.

From A Summer in a Canyon by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

"Thou shalt not yield to lord or loun,   Nor yet shalt thou yield to me; But yield thee to the bracken-bush   That grows on yonder lily lea!"

From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates

Then Lizie laid doun her silk mantle, And put on her waiting-maid’s goun, And aff and awa’ to the Hielands She’s gane wi’ this young shepherd loun.

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Frank Sidgwick

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 Robert Burns

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