luggie

[ luhg-ee, loog-ee, loo-gee ]

noun

, Scot.

1. any wooden container with a lug, or handle, as a mug, a pail, or a dish with a handle on the side.

Word History and Origins

Origin of luggie¹

First recorded in 1715–25; lug ² + -ie

Example Sentences

He helped David Gray and wrote a preface for The Luggie.

From Project Gutenberg

He was unsuccessful in his efforts to place Gray’s poem, “The Luggie,” in The Cornhill Magazine, but gave him some light literary work.

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He also showed him great kindness when a cold which had seized him assumed the serious form of consumption, and sent him to Torquay; but as the disease made rapid progress, an irresistible longing seized Gray to return to Merkland, where he arrived in January 1861, and died on the 3rd of December following, having the day before had the gratification of seeing a printed specimen copy of his poem “The Luggie,” published eventually by the exertions of Sydney Dobell.

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“The Luggie,” the principal poem of Gray, is a kind of reverie in which the scenes and events of his childhood and his early aspirations are mingled with the music of the stream which he celebrates.

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The Luggie and other Poems, with an introduction by R. Monckton Milnes, and a brief memoir by James Hedderwick, was published in 1862; and a new and enlarged edition of Gray’s Poetical Works, edited by Henry Glassford Bell, appeared in 1874.

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