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English
Etymology
From Old English (“void, loose, false”). Compare leasing.
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Adjective
leasy (comparative more leasy, superlative most leasy)
- (obsolete) flimsy; vague; deceptive
a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, , London: John Daye, , published 1570, →OCLC:the Sense it self be left both loose, and leasy
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