leccyn.
/ˈlɛki/, U.S. /ˈlɛki/ British colloquial.
Electricity, esp. as commercially supplied.
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fireOE
electricity1646
electrical fire1745
ethericity1748
white coal1916
wattage1977
leccy1987
1987 Guardian 22 Aug. 9/2 I'm getting £51.50, right? That's £27 dole, right, plus £4 for gas and leccy, plus interest on the mortgage.
1989 B. O'Connor Reader's Wife in Here Comes John (1993) 88 Pin money, Rolf called it—more like food money and leccy money and school dinner money.
1999 Caravan Mag. June 110/1 Free leccie..? John Wickersham goes in search of sunshine and solar power.
2005 FHM Jan. 171/3 The sun heats up the massive body of air underneath the station's skirts, which through the wonder of convection is forced up through the tower, sucking it past 32 turbines, which generate the leccy.
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leccyadj.
/ˈlɛki/, U.S. /ˈlɛki/ British colloquial (originally Liverpool).
Esp. of an appliance or device: electric, electrical.
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electrical1644
electric1658
Franklinian1767
electral1819
Franklinic1855
all-electric1903
'lectric1955
leccy1984
1961 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 5) II. 1166/1 Leccy or lecky, an electric tram: Liverpool.]
1984 P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) 673/2 Lecky or leccy, as adj., electric, as in lecky blanket, kettle, etc.
1992 Daily Mail (Nexis) 2 Dec. 14 It was like a 'leccy shock went through me.
2000 Scootering 5 Mar. 71/4 This top of the range Ambra GLX has leather interior, leccy windows, remote central locking,..and a host of other stuff.
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