loun

[ loon ]

noun

, Scot.

1. loon ².

Example Sentences

Uncle’s words came back to him: “The village of Loun- Ariik was attacked ... burned. Few people survived ... no one knows where they are now.”

From Literature

Wha first shall rise to gang awa, A cuckold, coward loun is he!

From Project Gutenberg

The carline she was stark and sture, She aff the hinges dang the dure; "O is your bairn to laird or loun, Or is it to your father's groom?"

From Project Gutenberg

"Hooly, hooly," muttered the beadsman, as his last step brought him to the chasm; "loun and canny, young master—loun and lightly," he added, as he sat down on what seemed to have been a step of a ruined porch, close by the building, and by the brink of the shelving heugh.

From Project Gutenberg

I think," said the ancient patriarch, "I'll just rest whar I am; it's a bonny sunny day, and the den is a' loun and sheltered.

From Project Gutenberg