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lunzie

lunzie noun: waist.

Noun

lunzie (plural lunzies)

  1. (Northern England, UK, archaic, dialectal) Waist.
    • Filling his glass, and calling him by name, “Lang life," said he, “to the wylie loon that gangs afield with a toom poke at his lunzie, and comes hame with a sackful o' siller."1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
    • He gave his lunzie sic a lounder As did the sillie man dumfounder.1827, William Tennant, Papistry storm'd: or, The Dingin' down o' the cathedral, page 14

Forms of lunzie

plurallunzies
alternative formlunyie

Origin of lunzie

From Scots.

Questions about lunzie

What does lunzie mean?
Lunzie means waist.
What part of speech is lunzie?
Lunzie is a noun.
What is the plural of lunzie?
The plural of lunzie is lunzies.

Words near lunzie in the dictionary

  1. luny
  2. Lunyoro
  3. Lunyu
  4. Lunz
  5. Lunzes
  6. lunzie
  7. lunzies
  8. Lunéville
  9. Luo
  10. luo han guo
  11. Luobei

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