lageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

lage (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Water; any weak alcoholic beverage.
   • 1641–42, Richard Brome, A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, act 2:

     I bowse no lage, but a whole gage / Of this I'll bowse to you.

動詞

lage (third-person singular simple present lages, present participle laging, simple past and past participle laged)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To drink.
   • 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors:

     I saye by the Salomon I will lage it of with a gage of Benebouse; then cut to my nose watch.

参照

• [Francis Grose] (1788) “Lage”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC.
• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “lage”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC, page 2.
• John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1896) “lage”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume IV, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 144.

アナグラム

• Gael, Gale, Lega, egal, gale, geal, leag

名詞

lage f

1. inflection of lagu (“law”):
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural