leasy
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English [Term?] (“void, loose, false”). Compare leasing.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]leasy (comparative more leasy, superlative most leasy)
- (obsolete) flimsy; vague; deceptive
- a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:
- the Sense it self be left both loose, and leasy
References
[edit]- “leasy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.