leeigheen

Yola

Alternative forms

• leigheen, leighen

Etymology

From Middle English leyȝhyng.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liːˈiːn/

Noun

leeigheen

1. laughing

Verb

leeigheen

1. present participle of leeigh

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52