† lauchtaneadj.
Scottish. Obsolete.
Dull coloured, swarthy.
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1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xix. 672 A lawchtane [1489 Adv. lauchtane] mantill than hym by Lyand apon the bed he saw.
a1568 in Pinkerton Anc. Sc. Poems (1786) 192 My rubie cheeks, was reid as rone, Ar leyn, and lauchtane as the leid.
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adj.1487- not to have a penny to bless oneself with
- not to have a penny to one's name
- not to have a pot to piss in
- not to have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it from
- not to have a prayer
- not to have a scooby
- not to have a shirt
- not to have a sprat
- not to have a word to throw at a dog
- not to have a —— bone in one's body
- not to have all day
- not to have all one's buttons
- not to have all one's buttons on
- not to have any
- not to have any of it
- not to have any of that
- not to have any of this
- not to have any small talk
- not to have both oars in the water
- not to have got a prayer
- not to have got all one's buttons
- not to have got all one's buttons on
- not to have the foggiest
- not to have the foggiest idea
- not to have the remotest