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lairding

lairding is the present participle and gerund of laird.

Meaning of laird

Verb

laird (third-person singular simple present lairds, present participle lairding, simple past and past participle lairded)

  1. (Scotland, transitive) Chiefly as laird it over: to behave like a laird, particularly to act haughtily or to domineer; to lord (it over).
    • But cauld was his hearth ere his youdith was o'er, / An' he delved on the lands he had lairded before; / Yet though he beggared his ha' an' deserted his lea, / Contented he roamed on the banks o' the Dee.1874, George Outram, “The Banks o’ the Dee”, in Henry Glassford Bell, editor, Lyrics Legal and Miscellaneous, 2nd edition, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood & Sons, →OCLC, page 86

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Questions about lairding

What is lairding the present participle and gerund of?
Lairding is the present participle and gerund of laird.

Words near lairding in the dictionary

  1. lairages
  2. laird
  3. lairded
  4. lairdess
  5. lairdesses
  6. lairding
  7. lairdocracy
  8. lairds
  9. lairdship
  10. lairdships
  11. laired

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