Dialect ‘L’ 2 of 3
Level going easy-tempered, gentle
Lick a toady, to beat, a blow, ‘that’s but a lick and a promise’, careless washing; ‘lick thumbs on that’, make a pledge or promise
Lies near is close; also of money in the bank, stands in good stead, ‘it lies by me till I need it’
Lift to pass the plate in church, stadium; n. the result of the former; misunderstand, ‘I did not lift you there’; steal, ‘he’d lift anything’; ‘when does the funeral lift?’, start; ‘I’ll give you a lift with my toe’, hard kick to raise you up; ‘a dead lift’, weight raised from ground level
Liggety long
Lights ‘roaring his lights out for nothing at all’
Like ‘like I don’t know what!’, comparison difficult
‘what like is the calf?’, is it healthy?; ‘summer like’, hot; ‘winter-like’, cold
Likeness photograph, ‘he had his likeness tuk’
Limber easily breakable
Lines Certificate of baptism, marriage, character
Linge chastise
Lip impertinence, ‘don’t give me your lip’; taste, ‘I haven’t lipped a drink all day’
Lint-hole flax-hole
Load large quantity, ‘he had a full load last night’, got drunk
Load o’ coul’ a bad cold
Lock unspecified quantity, ‘a lock of potatoes’, ‘a lock of hens’