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单词 lakin
释义 I. lakin1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈleɪkɪn|
Also 5 lakan, lakayn, 5–6 laykin, -yn, 8 laken, laking, 9 (in glossaries) lairkin.
[app. connected with lake v.1; cf. ON. leika plaything.]
A plaything, toy; in quots. 1440, 1460 said of a baby.
Bp. Kennet (c 1700), quoted in Promp. Parv., gives ‘Leikin, a sweetheart. Northumb.
c1440Gesta Rom. xxxii. 123 (Harl. MS.) He putt vp in his bosom þes iij. lakayns.c1460Towneley Myst. xiii. 242 Ilk yere that commys to man She bryngys furth a lakan.1570Levins Manip. 134/5 A Laykin, babie, crepundia.1790Grose Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2) Suppl., Lakings, playthings for children. North.1790Mrs. Wheeler Westmld. Dial. (1821) 87, I brout her a Lunnon laken, a conny bab.1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Lairkins, children's toys; trinkets in general.
II. lakin2 Obs.
Also 5, 7 laken, 6 lakens. See also byrlakin.
[Contracted f. lady + -kin; cf. bodikins, pittikins.]
Only in by (our) lakin, a trivial form of by Our Lady.
1496Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) ii. xii. 121/2 Some [swere] by laken, some by our lady.1533More Apol. iv. Wks. 849/2 By our lakens brother husband..yet woulde I rather abyde the perill of breding wormes in my bely.1610Shakes. Temp. iii. iii. 1 By'r lakin, I can goe no further, Sir, My old bones akes.1616[W. Haughton] English-men for my Money C 4, Bir laken sirs, I thinks tis one a clocke.a1625[see byrlakin].
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