КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «LOWSING TIME»
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Survey English Dialects
... leave-offtime, leave-work-time, leaving-off-time, leavingtime, leaving-work-time,
ligging-away-time, ligging-off-time, loose-all, loose-it, loosing-time => lowsing-
time, lowse, lowse-time, lowsing-off-time, lowsing-out-time, lowsing-time, my time,
...
He's a pretty dour character. 5. I'll chum you to the bus stop. 6. I had to humph it
the whole way. 7. Tom did nothing but greet. 8. I wish it was lowsing time. 9. He's
a kenspeckle creature. 10. That's me having to do the whole thing over again. 11.
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Good Or Bad Scots?: Attitudes to Optional Lexical and ...
Lowsing time is a Scottish expression for 'time to stop work, the end of the
working day' (SND) which is also found in northern England (Yorkshire, EDD). By
the majority of the informants this item was classed as a Scottish country
expression ...
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Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia
7.8 I wish it was lowsing time Lowsing time is a Scottish expression for 'time to
stop work, the end of the working day' (SND) which is also found in northern
England (Yorkshire, EDD). By the majority of the informants this item was classed
as a ...
K. Gunnar Bergström, 1983
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The Contemporary Review
These I cannot deal with, for time would fail me to tell of the humour of the Out-of-
Doors, the humour of byre and stable — the humour of " When the Kye Comes
Hame," of the lowsing-time, of Hallowe'en and Holy Fair. I know not whether there
...
... humor of " When the Kye Comes Hame," of the lowsing-time, of Hallowe'en and
Holy Fair. I know not whether there is as much of it now as there once was. They
say that there is not. I only know that there was enough and to spare in my time, ...
... the humor of byre and stable —the humor of “ When the Kye Comes Hams,” of
the lowsing-time, of Hallowe'en and Holy Fair. I know not whether there is as
much of it now as there once was. They say that there is not. I only know that
there ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1895
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The White Rose Garland of Yorkshire Dialect Verse and Local ...
... lisk : flank. lithin: thickening, flour and water used to thicken broth, gravy, etc.
liwer : deliver, lollard : a lazy person. looance : allowance, wage, lurry : feast,
loused : set free, low : light, lownd : calm. lowsing-time : time to quit work and go
home ...
Wilfrid J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby, 1949
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The Pit Sinkers of Northumberland and Durham
... isconveyed from face Kettle cylindrical or barrelshaped vessel of wood or iron,
used to raise and lower materials and men during sinking of pits Knobsticksname
for blacklegs Lowsing time time to finish work at end of shift Oversman Scottish ...
... and when the call came that it was " lowsing " time there was a grim satisfaction
in knowing that the " sairest brae in the pit " had not proved " owre hard " for one
not of mining stock. The merriest quarter of an hour in the day is 32 AMONG ...
