1. a recluse or hermit.
2. a bad or tasteless joke.
3. to work in a haphazardly manner.
4. a type of vetch, _Vicia ervilia_.
5. a small Eurasian finch having streaked brown plumage.
6. a fine for fornication or adultery, esp. with a bondwoman.
7. in saxon legend, a lesser genius loci with a malevolent bent.
8. an armorer specializing in bludgeoning weapons such as maces.
9. the raw skin of a sheep or goat, stripped and ready for tanning.
10. a type of parasitic insect found in the dens of hibernating mammals.
11. [Obs] a wife beater; also LAIRWIGHT [OE common law: literally _a home troll_]
12. (var. Lairwight or Laerwight) a small mischievous and sometimes malevolent creature in Celtic mythology.
13. the northern shrike (_Lanius borealis_) noted for its piercing cry ("lair-WITE, lair-WITE") repeated two or three times.
14. a shark of the genus _Lamna_, especially _L. nasus_, a large, voracious species of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.
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8 and 11 go together, although they shouldn’t.
7. in saxon legend, a lesser genius loci with a malevolent bent.
12. (var. Lairwight or Laerwight) a small mischievous and sometimes malevolent creature in Celtic mythology.
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On Jun 17, 2020, at 5:38 PM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:
Here we have 14 creative defs of the word LAIRWITE, only one of which came from my dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message, before the deadline of:10:00 BST on Friday 19th June, which is:
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21:00 NZST in New ZealandNew players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.-- Tim L*** LAIRWITE ***
1. a recluse or hermit.
9. the raw skin of a sheep or goat, stripped and ready for tanning.
I’ll go with 5 and with 11, because the latter is too wacky not to potentially be real.
Alan
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Comment to Paul
while I agree with you that back then (¿when?) originally wight
meant 'creature' and that wite meant something different
(either 'wise-man' or 'fine' or 'painful punishment') my problem
with your comment is so what? for in 600 or more years spellings
can and do change and in particular, phonetically similar sounds
regularly interchange and often change quite quickly (early) so
any of the claims to which you refer could well be true = or,
given the context, the invention of modern humanity!
Tim,
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