lunzie

plural lunzies · alternative lunyie

1. Northern EnglandUKarchaicdialectalWaist.

   He gave his lunzie sic a lounder As did the sillie man dumfounder.

   1827, William Tennant, Papistry storm'd: or, The Dingin' down o' the cathedral, page 14

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   Filling his glass, and calling him by name, “Lang life," said he, “to the wylie loon that gangs afield with a toom poke at his lunzie, and comes hame with a sackful o' siller."

   1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

   Solace, sure that sall be no sunzie, Beir ye that bag upon your lunzie, Now sirs, win weill your wage

   1871, Sir David Lindsay, The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, page 14