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ligs

ligs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lig.

ligs is the plural of lig.

Meaning of lig

Verb

lig (third-person singular simple present ligs, present participle ligging, simple past ligged or lag or lay, past participle ligged or lag or lay or laggen or lain)

  1. (Cumbria, Yorkshire, intransitive) To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
    • His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (Cumbria, Yorkshire, transitive) To lay.
  3. (intransitive, slang) To be a ligger or hanger-on; to freeload.
    • […] but within the confines of the music business it means the pinnacle of a career dedicated to ligging […]1991, Blues & Soul, numbers 589-601, page 32

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Questions about ligs

What is ligs the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ligs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lig.

Words near ligs in the dictionary

  1. ligresses
  2. ligroin
  3. ligroine
  4. ligroines
  5. ligroins
  6. ligs
  7. ligs.
  8. ligsam
  9. ligstroside
  10. ligtas point
  11. Ligtasan

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