Monday, 6 November 2017

"Lossucking"

"Lossucking" or "lozzucking" about meant "lounging around" i.e. being lazy.  It was sometimes used by my great grandmother to reproach my great grandfather for not helping, usually in the kitchen.

I haven't been able to find this word's origin but it seems likely to come from the same source as "loll" or "laze".
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1 comment:

  1. Lall2 July 2021 at 19:26

    I live in Yorkshire and it was common parlance in my family if we were being idle or lounging around when there was work to be done. I would have spelt if lossaking but lossuking sounds like a more northern spelling.

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