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Adjective
linnow (comparative more linnow, superlative most linnow)
- (dialectal, especially Shropshire, Montgomeryshire, Worcestershire, obsolete) Flexible, supple.
- 1528 (1535), Paynel, Salerne's Regim., , page 108 b:
- Baynyngmaketh the skynne linnowe or soupulle.
- 1877, "an aged man", quoted in The Montgomeryshire Collections, page 216:
- "I'm as linnow now as ever."
1904, Catherine Milnes Gaskell, Old Shropshire Life, page 291:Then Rowland got up with a despairing gesture. “I haven't nobody,” he murmured, and went tottering up the stairs. “Lor!” said Priss meditatively, “I thought as the lad wud have had more spunk in 'im, but he's as linnow as a glove.
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