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Examples
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Ai am laikin berry mush “seein” all teh cheezpeeps todai!
Long cat…… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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One of these heah peccaries, a good-natured peccary, too, with a laikin 'fo' little children, found you in the cyclone.
The Way of the Wind Zoe Anderson Norris
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"Thou's bin laikin 'agean, thou gert good-for-nowt," was her usual greeting for Job on these occasions.
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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An 'as he were set theer, waitin' for it to get dark, he saw five blue-bottles that were laikin 'at tig i' t 'sunshine anent
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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He was a hard-workin 'man, was Throp, but I reckon all his wark were nobbut laikin' anent what his wife could do.
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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I were i 'my father's farm on t' wold, laikin 'wi' my brothers same as I used to do when I were a lile barn.
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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'They've bin laikin', that's what they've bin doin '.
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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We hadn't been lukkin 'moor nor a minnit or two, when a man wi' a red beeard coom runnin 'daan th' hill an 'stopt abaat ten yards throo whear th' chaps wor laikin 'at pitch an' toss, an 'he started o' writin 'summat daan in a book.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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But when awd getten aghtside aw saw they wor all awther leetin ther pipes or laikin at soddin one another.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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"O, they're nobbut laikin at snowball, or else slurrin a bit," he said; -- at the same time he put on his hat and coat, and showed as much alacrity to join in the search as the mother herself.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
gangerh commented on the word laikin
Yorkshire - playing. As in an invitation to play dominoes "Are you laikin?".
February 3, 2008