Loo. For the good of the loo; for the benefit
of the company
or community.
Looby. An awkward, ignorant fellow.
Looking as if one could not
help it. Looking like a
simpleton, or as if one could not say
boh! to a goose.
Looking-glass. A chamber pot, jordan, or member mug.
Loon, or lout. A country bumkin, or clown.
LOONSLATE. Thirteen pence halfpenny.
Loophole. An opening, or means of escape.
To find a
loophole in an act of parliament; i.e.
a method of
evading it,
Lop-sided. Uneven, having one side larger
or heavier than
the other: boys’ paper kites
are often said to be lop-sided.
To lope. To leap, to run away.
He loped down the dancers;
he ran down stairs.
Lord. A crooked or hump-backed man.
These unhappy
people afford great scope for vulgar raillery;
such as, ’Did
you come straight from home? if so, you
have got confoundedly
bent by the way.’ ‘Don’t
abuse the gemman,’
adds a by-stander, ’he has been
grossly insulted already;
don’t you see his back’s up?’
Or someone asks him if the
show is behind; ‘because I see,’
adds he, ’you have the
drum at your back.’ Another
piece of vulgar wit is let
loose on a deformed person: If met
by a party of soldiers
on their march, one of them observes that
that gentleman
is on his march too, for he has got his
knapsack at his back.
It is said in the British Apollo, that
the title of lord was
first given to deformed persons in the
reign of Richard III.
from several persons labouring under that
misfortune being
created peers by him; but it is more probably
derived
from the Greek word [Greek:
lordos], crooked.
Louse. A gentleman’s companion.
He will never louse a
grey head of his own; he will never live
to be old.
Love begotten child. A bastard.
Lounge. A loitering place, or gossiping shop.
Louse bag. A black bag worn to the hair or wig.
Louse house. The round house, cage, or any other place of confinement.
Louse ladder. A stitch fallen in a stocking.
Louse land. Scotland.
Louse trap. A small toothed comb.
Lout. A clumsy stupid fellow.
Lowing rig. Stealing oxen or cows.
Low pad. A footpad.
Low tide, or low water. When
there is no money in
a man’s pocket.
LOWRE. Money. Cant.
Lubber. An awkward fellow: a name given
by sailors to
landsmen.


