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  • lousy
    [OED, mean, vile; Scots shabby CSD] adj. (of laughter) crude, malicious: a lousy laugh  (San. Sal.). (Black)
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  • loud-mouth
    /lawd mawt/ [OED, adj. noisy obs. → 1668] adv. loudly: 1936 I run over t' de telefome box an' start
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  • lot
    [cf. OED lot upon to count on reckon upon obs. → 1662; now US dial. North ADD] v. to plan
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  • loss his nature
    [Trin. idem (Winer p.c.); cf. NATURE sexual drive; cf. US dial. South take his nature to unsex an animal DARE]
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  • loss
    [Atlantic; cf. dial. loss lose in Brit. EDD, US South ADD] v. to lose: Not lossing the child's confidence (COB).
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  • Lordy!
    [also US Black ESEA; OED, US ... also Lordy massy (i.e., Lord have mercy)] intj. an exclamation of pain (used
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  • loose stomach
    [cf. Sra. loesbere diarrhoea WST; cf. OED loose of the bowels: relaxed] n. diarrhea. cf. TIGHT BOWELS (Exuma, Eleu.)
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  • loose
    v. 1. [Atlantic; OED idem cast loose nautical, unfasten dial.; also Scots EDD] to let loose: 1918 B'o' Boukee loosed
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  • looka
    [cf. OED look used to bespeak attention ... in modern colloq. use often look you (in representations of vulgar speech
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  • look
    [Atlantic; OED idem obs. → 1560; Brit. dial. Mid. idem EDD] v.t. to look at; examine: 1918 She look the
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