laldyn.
/ˈlaldi/, U.S. /ˈlɑldi/, Scottish English /ˈlaldɪ/ Scottish colloquial.
A beating, a thrashing; punishment. Frequently in to gie (or give) (someone) laldy and to get laldy. Now chiefly figurative, esp. in to gie (or give) it laldy, to do something with the utmost vigour or enthusiasm. Cf. stick n.1 4a(b).
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > beat or flog [verb (intransitive)] > be beaten
to drink or lick (up) on the whipa1500
to lick of the whipa1500
to have it1599
vapulate1783
to eat stick1862
to get laldy1889
society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > severely
visita1382
to-punisha1400
overpunisha1639
to give (a person) hell1836
to give a person what for1852
slate1854
to give it in the neck1881
to come down1888
bean1910
scrub1911
cane1925
to gie (or give) (someone) laldy1935
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)]
twig1573
to go at ——1675
to go it1794
to come it1796
to lay it on thick1806
to blaze away1826
bushwhack1837
steam1842
split1844
rustle1882
to work like a demon1884
yank1888
go-at-it1904
to go somea1911
to put a jerk in it1919
to go (also do) one's (also a) dinger1923
to work (etc.) one's ass off1924
to go to town1933
to gie (or give) it laldy1974
1889 H. Johnston Chron. Glenbuckie 226 If it had come to the maister's ears I'm thinking ye would have got laldie.
1912 G. Cunningham Verse: maistly in Doric 118 Ye'll get laldie owre the bum.
1935 W. D. Cocker Further Poems 28 He focht alane for Israel against the Philistine, An' fairly gied them laldie wi' the jaw-bane o' a cuddie.
1974 Sunday Post (Glasgow) 28 Apr. 8/3 Some bairns were giving it laldy with ball and stick.
1981 A. Gray Lanark xxxvi. 416 ‘Give him laldy, Gow!’ yelled a voice behind the pillar.
1986 W. Kay Scots (1988) 58 The author of The Complaynt of Scotland..is nowhere more articulate than when he is giein the English laldy.
1992 I. Pattison More Rab C. Nesbitt Scripts 38 Jamesie: Brilliant this isn't it boys! American fitba! Andra: Yi can get right mowed in and give it laldy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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