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Default Re: Dialect/Slang Word- "Lash!"

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Originally Posted by Casiopea View Post
What about?
Possibly from Irish Laise or Luise meaning, glamour [with semantic extension to wonderful]
Source: Cork Slang
Interesting. In the Geordie song 'The Keel Row' the young woman singer's young man is called 'leish': The Keel Row . Perhaps it's related.

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