lig
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 4
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 3
/lɪɡ/
Definition of lig
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(Cumbria, Yorkshire, intransitive)To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
“His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost”
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verb
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(Cumbria, Yorkshire, intransitive)To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.
“His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost”
- (Cumbria, Yorkshire, transitive)To lay.
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(intransitive, slang)To be a ligger or hanger-on; to freeload.
“[…] but within the confines of the music business it means the pinnacle of a career dedicated to ligging […]”
noun
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(UK, obsolete, slang)A lie; an untruth.
“And the Muse of Arts that never told a lig, / Whirls in her mid-air flight to sing of Twigg; […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English liggen, from Old English liċġan (“to lie, be situated, be at rest, remain”) and Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). More at lie.
Words you can make from lig
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