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Etymology
Borrowed from Irish luigh (“to lie”).
Pronunciation
Verb
leiough
- (figurative) to idle
- Synonym: myche
1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Leiough ut ee die.- Idle out the day.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52