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Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
30-Oct-23 - 07:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Wild Geese a-flying, a-flying
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wild Geese a-flying, a-flying
Needs context. Could just be “luggage,” or whatever, in some author's idea of an accent, or...

“LUGGISH, an indolent, or idle fellow.––LUGGISH-HEEDED, heavy headed, thick headed.”
[A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use, Brockett, 1825]

Slightly later edition:
“LUGGISH, a dull, heavy, stupid. Probaby loggish.
LUGGISH, s an indolent, or idle fellow. “Loup, ye luggish, ye ha' nae spunk in ye.””
[A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use, Brockett, 1829]


“LUGGISH. Dull; heavy; stupid. Luggy is also heard in the same sense.”
[A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, Vol. 2, Halliwell-Phillipps, 1860]