loshn.1
/lɒʃ/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Alces (elk or moose)
elk1486
alce1541
losh1591
ellend1600
orignal1609
ellan1613
moose1614
moose deer1672
elende1697
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth iii. f. 10 v Their beasts of strange kinds are the Losh [= elk], the Ollen, the wilde Horse.
1598 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 463 An Elke or Loshe, the Red deere of the countrey.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xvii. 431 They worship the Sunne, the Ollen, and the Losy and such like.
a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) ii. 25 People riding on Elks and Loshes.
2. losh hide, losh leather: the untanned hide of the elk, and later of the buffalo and ox, prepared with oil; a soft buff-coloured leather; wash-leather. (Cf. lasch n.)
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > chamois-leather or wash-leather
chamois1575
losh hide1583
shambo leather1612
wash-leather1681
shammy-leather1714
shambo skin1755
losh leather1756
1583 C. Carleill in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) iii. 720 Losshe hides, riche Furres, and other such like.
1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth iii. f. 8 Their Losh or Buffe hide is very faire and large.
1662 Irish Statutes (1765) II. 409 Losh hides, the piece £1.
1756 Gentleman's Mag. 26 61 Losh, or buff-leather, drest in oil.
1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 433 Oiled leather is commonly known as..wash~leather... It is also called losh leather.
1864 P. A. Nuttall Craig's New Universal Dict. Suppl. Losh-hide, a hide not dressed in any way, but simply oiled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
loshn.2
/lɒʃ/ A name in Canada and Alaska for the burbot.
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1884 T. H. Bean in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 236 In Alaska..it is known as ‘Losh’; in Canada, as ‘la Loche’.
1884 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 273.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
loshn.3int.
/lɔːʃ/, U.S. /lɔʃ/, /lɑʃ/, Scottish English /lɔʃ/ Scottish.
= lord n. and int., used in certain exclamations.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection]
whatOE
well, wellOE
avoyc1300
ouc1300
ay1340
lorda1393
ahaa1400
hillaa1400
whannowc1450
wow1513
why?1520
heydaya1529
ah1538
ah me!a1547
fore me!a1547
o me!a1547
what the (also a) goodyear1570
precious coals1576
Lord have mercy (on us)1581
good heavens1588
whau1589
coads1590
ay me!1591
my stars!a1593
Gods me1595
law1598
Godso1600
to go out1600
coads-nigs1608
for mercy!a1616
good stars!1615
mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616
gramercy1617
goodness1623
what next?1662
mon Dieu1665
heugh1668
criminy1681
Lawd1696
the dickens1697
(God, etc.) bless my heart1704
alackaday1705
(for) mercy's sake!1707
my1707
deuce1710
gracious1712
goodly and gracious1713
my word1722
my stars and garters!1758
lawka1774
losha1779
Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784
great guns!1795
mein Gott1795
Dear me!1805
fancy1813
well, I'm sure!1815
massy1817
Dear, dear!1818
to get off1818
laws1824
Mamma mia1824
by crikey1826
wisha1826
alleleu1829
crackey1830
Madonna mia1830
indeed1834
to go on1835
snakes1839
Jerusalem1840
sapristi1840
oh my days1841
tear and ages1841
what (why, etc.) in time?1844
sakes alive!1846
gee willikers1847
to get away1847
well, to be sure!1847
gee1851
Great Scott1852
holy mackerel!1855
doggone1857
lawsy1868
my wig(s)!1871
gee whiz1872
crimes1874
yoicks1881
Christmas1882
hully gee1895
'ullo1895
my hat!1899
good (also great) grief!1900
strike me pink!1902
oo-er1909
what do you know?1909
cripes1910
coo1911
zowiec1913
can you tie that?1918
hot diggety1924
yeow1924
ziggety1924
stone (or stiffen) the crows1930
hullo1931
tiens1932
whammo1932
po po po1936
how about that?1939
hallo1942
brother1945
tie that!1948
surprise1953
wowee1963
yikes1971
never1974
to sod off1976
whee1978
mercy1986
yipes1989
a1779 D. Graham Leper the Taylor (1785) 17 The losh preserve me, sirs.
1792 G. Galloway Poems 40 Tax shoon! losh how the snobs will glunch.
1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 755 Losh me! that's beautifu' language.
1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 363/1 ‘Losh! the body's cracked’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† loshv.
Obsolete.
intransitive. ? To fall with a splash; to go stumbling.
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1629 J. Gaule Distractions 170 Yet am I not so sheepish, to losh into the Ditch.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Losh, to splash in water. North.
1859 A. Whitehead Legends of Westmorland 21 An laykes and loshes ower the steaynes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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