leiough

Yola

Alternative forms

• leigh

Etymology

From Middle English leiȝen (“lie down”), from Old English leċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /leːˈuː/, /leː/
• Homophones: laaye, leeigh

Verb

leiough

1. (figurative) to idle

   Synonym: myche

   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Leiough ut ee die.

     Idle out the day.

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