Standard Lemma guide
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noun
Flesh, brawn, or muscle; the fleshy part of a person or animal in contradistinction to the bone and skin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal
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noun
The fleshy part of a roast capon, etc. as distinguished from a limb or joint.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal
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noun
The cheek.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal
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noun
Face; appearance of the face or skin; complexion; hue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, dialectal
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noun
The Manx shearwater (bird).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Orkney, Scotland, Shetland, UK, dialectal
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, ornithology
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noun
plural of lira
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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History
From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old English līra (“any fleshy part of the body, muscle, calf of the leg”), from Proto-Germanic *ligwizô, *lihwizô (“thigh, groin”), from Proto-Indo-European *lekws-, *lewks- (“groin”). Cognate with Dutch lies (“groin”), Swedish lår (“thigh”).
From Middle English lire, lyre, from Old Norse hlýr (“cheeks”, plural). Compare Middle English lere, from Old English hlēor (“cheek, countenance, complexion”). More at leer.
From Old Norse líri. Cognate with Norwegian lira.
Borrowed from Italian lire.
