lumme
/ˈlʌmi
/exclamation British informal, dated
An expression of surprise or interest: ‘Lumme!’ said Quigley. ‘She isn’t half a size!’...
- Oh lumme, she does get morbid.
- Cor, lumme, she is as beautiful as I expected.
Origin
Late 19th century: from (Lord) love me.
Rhymes
- Sheridan, Philip Henry
- Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
- sherif
- sheriff
- sheriff clerk
- sheriff court
- sheriff-depute
- sheriffdom
- sheriff principal
- sheriffship
- Sherlock
- Sherlockian
- Sherman, Roger
- Sherman tank
- Sherman, William Tecumseh
- Sherpa
- sherried
- Sherrington, Sir Charles Scott
- sherry
- 's-Hertogenbosch
- sherwani
- she's
- she's apples
- she's (or she'll be) right
- she's sweet