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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
Flexible, supple.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Shropshire, dialectal, especially, obsolete
Qualifier: Worcestershire
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Uncertain; perhaps from West Midland Middle English lengh, lenghe (“length”), with vocalisation of final /x/ and the original meaning being "lengthy, slender", though some trace of both the formal and semantic development would be expected already in Middle English.
