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lieftel

lieftel is the alternative form of leeftail.

Meaning of leeftail

Adjective

leeftail (comparative more leeftail, superlative most leeftail)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) High in demand; quickly sold.
    • Markets hes been terrable laa this lang time, hardly worth gangin teea; but it wur Size, en wur a varra lieftel market, an et wur a wunder.1839, Ann Coward Wheeler, Dialogues, poems, songs, and ballads

Forms of lieftel

comparativemore lieftel
superlativemost lieftel

Questions about lieftel

What is lieftel the alternative form of?
Lieftel is the alternative form of leeftail.

Words near lieftel in the dictionary

  1. liefest
  2. liefling
  3. lieflings
  4. liefly
  5. liefsome
  6. lieftel
  7. Lieg
  8. liegance
  9. liegances
  10. liege
  11. liege lord

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lieftel (page history and authors); leeftail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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