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laidly, a. Now Sc. and arch. (with allusion to ballad use).|ˈleɪdlɪ|
Also 4 laithly, 5 lathely, 6 laithlie, 7, 9 laidlie, 8 laily.
[Northern var. of loathly.]
Offensive, hideous, repulsive.
a1300Cursor M. 2406 (Gött.) Sore i me drede, Þar we wend bi þis laithly lede. a1400–50Alexander 491 He..Lete sa lathely a late. 1513Douglas æneis iv. viii. 100 Wynis gude Anon returnit into laithlie blude. 1567Gude & Godly Ball. (S.T.S.) 40 Lickand the fylth furth of his laithlie flesche. a1605Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 132 With laidlie language, loud and large. a1800Laily Worm & Machrel ii. in Child Ballads (1884) I. 316/1 She has made me the laily worm, That lies at the fit o the Tree. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIII. 177 When first the destrier eyed The laidly thing, it swerved aside. 1849Lytton K. Arthur vi. lxvi, The laidliest widows find consoling mates. 187819th Cent. 992 Her laidly wooer, whose income was better than his looks. 1884Q. Rev. Apr. 326 Long black boats, outriggered, and manned, as one might think, by a lot of overgrown black spiders, so long, so lank, so ‘laidlie’ are the crew. |