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lawk, lawks, int.|lɔːk(s|
Also 8–9 lauk.
[vulgar form of lack n.2 or deformation of lord.]
= Lord! Also lawk-a-daisy (me) and as n. = lack-a-daisy. lawk-a-mercy (-mussy) = Lord have mercy!; also as v. = to cry ‘Lawk-a-mercy!’, and as quasi-adj.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 168 Lauk! that cannot be like mistress, for she has never a blue gown. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxxix, Lauk, Mr. Weller,..how you do frighten one! a1845Hood Lost Heir 25 Lawk help me, I don't know where to look. 1864J. Payn Sir Massingberd 33 Spread-eagled fruit-trees, or, as school-boys called them, ‘lawk-a-daises’. 1886Pioneer (N.Y.) Oct. (Cent.), ‘Lawks!’ exclaimed Mrs. Partington, ‘what monsters these master-builders must be!’ 1890Baring-Gould Arminell xlix. 464 Lawk, miss! She wouldn't stand no nonsense. 1893― Cheap Jack Z. I. 10 The servant maids..were..lawk-a-mussying and oh-mying over the bargains. 1909J. Masefield Tragedy of Nan i. 8 Idle lawkamercy girl. 1927B. L. K. Henderson Chats about our Mother Tongue i. 54 Lawkamercy, lad, what's that? |