Labour dig, toil
Laced beaten, ‘Pat’s Hughie was laced to ribbons in the fight’
Laced fortified with spirits
Lamentable bad, ‘lamentable news’
Land arrive [regardless of mode of transport!]
Landed ended up, fell, ‘he landed in the water’
hit ‘I landed him one on the nose’
caught, ‘She landed him’
Lant scold
Lap wrap, ‘Lap the shawl round ye’
Lapped up ate hungrily, wrapped up, succombed to flattery
Lash plenty, heaps, ‘lashings o’ money’
Splash, ‘lash the water round ye’
Vomit, ‘she lashed it all off’
Threshed, ‘he lashed it with the flail’
Scold, ‘she’s always lashing out’
Last endurance, ‘there’s no last in it’ ‘he’ll not last the night’
Lasty lasting
Laudy-daw snobbish
Law ‘to take the law’, to go to law, ‘lay down the law wi’ them’, talk with authority
Lay clear, leave, ‘Lay the house this minit’
Lay on flattery, chastisement, ‘She’s good at laying it on’
Learn teach, ‘I’ll learn ye if I get me hands on ye’
Leather to beat
Let on var. ‘don’t let on’, don’t tell
‘we never let on we saw her’
‘he’s ony letting on’, pretending
Let be leave alone
Level going easy tempered
Lick n. a toady, a blow ‘a lick on the snout’, a blow to the nose,
Careless washing, ‘that’s just a lick and a promise’ v. to beat, also a promise or a pledge, ‘we’ll lick thumbs on that’
Lies near, ‘it lies by me till I need it’
Lift church, or event collect, ‘What was the lift?’
Understand, ‘I didn’t lift you there’
Steal, ‘that boy ‘ud lift anything not nailed down’
Carry a coffin, ‘You’re with the second lift, OK?‘
Kick, ‘I’ll lift ye with me toe’
A dead lift, a weight raised from ground level
Liggety long
Lights lungs, ‘..roaring his lights out for nothing at all’ ‘I’ll knock yer lights out’
Like continuation of above ‘..like I don’t know what’
‘what like is the calf?’ is it good or otherwise
Likeness photograph, ‘he had his likeness tuk’
Limber easily broken
Lines certificate of marriage, baptism etc.
Linge to chastise
Lip impertinence
Taste, ‘I haven’t lipped drink the day’
Lint-hole flax-hole
Load quantity of drink
‘he had a full load, drunk as a lord’
Load of coul’ a bad dose of the cold
Lock an unspecified quantity, ‘a lock of potatoes’
Loft upstairs
Lobby big, careless, slothful
Loodther to beat
Looks his bit begs for food, ‘a poor man looks his bit’
Looney lunatic
Longsome slow, ‘he’s that longsome’
Loose free, ‘When yer father’s loose I’d like a word with him’
Loose-leg free to come and go, as a bachelor
Looseness diarrhoea
Loy spade
Lue lukewarm, as of water, courting, friendship
Lump it put up with, ‘If you don’t like it you can lump it!’
Lump large, ‘a great lump of a child’, [or horse, house etc]
Lying sick, ‘she’s been lying for months’
Long-tongued indiscreet person
Loose-tongued same, also, a bawdy conversationalist
Lug ear