loanin

English

Noun

loanin (plural loanins)

1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of lonnen

References

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “LOANIN”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.

Scots

Alternative forms

lonin, loning, lonan, loaning, loanning, loaneen

Etymology

From Middle English lonnynge (“a right of way”), equivalent to loan +‎ -in. Attested in Older Scots from the 14th century.

Noun

loanin (plural loanins)

1. a strip of grass on a farm used as pasture, a road, or an area for milking cattle; a lonnen

   Synonym: loan

   • 2002 [1978], George Campbell Hay, “The Auld Border Wumman”, in Collected Poems and Songs of George Campbell Hay, Edinburgh University Press, page 25:

     The gerss dees and grows oot on the loanin.
     The burn? I’d drink its watter i a tassie.

     The grass dies and grows again out on the pasture. The stream? I’d drink its water in a cup.

2. a lane; the part of a street that has no pavement
   • 1863, Michael Scribblestane, “The Guid Folk O’ Ponderweel”, in Sarah Smith Jones, editor, Northumberland and Its Neighbour Lands, page 20:

     I gat up an’ wandered (partly tae warm me, an’ partly wi’ the restlessness sin brings wi’ it) up a loanin’ leadin’ frae the town we were actin’ in.

     I got up and wandered (partly to keep warm, and partly with a sinner’s restlessness) up a lane that led out of the town where we were performing.

   • 2018 [1913], Alexander Anderson, “Bonnie Bessie Logan”, in Later Poems, page 39:

     O, bonnie Bessie Logan,
     The lads are at the stile,
     Or half-way up the loanin’
     To catch your winsome smile

     Oh, pretty Bessie Logan, The boys are at the gate, Or half-way up the lane To catch your pleasant smile