Dialect ‘L’ 3 of 3
Loft upstairs
Looby big, careless, slothful
Loodther to beat
Looks his bit begs his food, ‘a poor man looking his bit’
Loony lunatic
Longsome slow, ‘he’s that longsome, the thing’s never done’
Loose free, ‘When your father’s loose I’d like a word with him’
Loose-leg an unattached person, ‘a bachelor has a loose-leg’
Looseness diarrhoea
Loy a spade
Lue lukewarm, of friendship, courting or liquid drinks
Lump it put up with it, ‘like it or lump it’
Lump large, ‘great lump of a child’, ‘.. of a horse’, ‘.. of a house’, complimentary expressions
Lying sick, ‘she’s lying these weeks’
Long-tongued an indiscreet person
Loose-tongued same, and a bawdy conversationalist
Lug ear