loanin

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English

Noun

loanin (plural loanins)

  1. (Geordie) Alternative spelling of lonnen

References

  • Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN

Scots

Alternative forms

lonin, loning, lonan, loaning, loanning, loaneen

Etymology

From Middle English lonnynge (“a right of way”),[1] equivalent to loan +‎ -in. Attested in Older Scots from the 14th century.[2]

Noun

loanin (plural loanins)

  1. a strip of grass on a farm used as pasture, a road, or an area for milking cattle; a lonnen
    Synonym: loan
    • 2002 [1978], George Campbell Hay, “The Auld Border Wumman”, in Collected Poems and Songs of George Campbell Hay, Edinburgh University Press, page 25:
      The gerss dees and grows oot on the loanin.
      The burn? I’d drink its watter i a tassie.
      The grass dies and grows again out on the pasture. The stream? I’d drink its water in a cup.
  2. a lane; the part of a street that has no pavement
    • 1863, Michael Scribblestane, “The Guid Folk O’ Ponderweel”, in Sarah Smith Jones, editor, Northumberland and Its Neighbour Lands, page 20:
      I gat up an’ wandered (partly tae warm me, an’ partly wi’ the restlessness sin brings wi’ it) up a loanin’ leadin’ frae the town we were actin’ in.
      I got up and wandered (partly to keep warm, and partly with a sinner’s restlessness) up a lane that led out of the town where we were performing.
    • 2018 [1913], Alexander Anderson, “Bonnie Bessie Logan”, in Later Poems, page 39:
      O, bonnie Bessie Logan,
      The lads are at the stile,
      Or half-way up the loanin’
      To catch your winsome smile
      Oh, pretty Bessie Logan, The boys are at the gate, Or half-way up the lane To catch your pleasant smile

References

  1. ^ James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Loaning”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1 (L), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
  2. ^ “loanin, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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