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Page 276 but what they do know is there will be "lashins" of drink towards nightfall, one or two good, stirring fights, and any number of broken heads.
My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914
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"I moind me now that the missionaries in Chaynee baptized lashins av haythin babies under pretinse av rubbin 'um with medicine.
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March 17, 2008 at 3:21 am ifn ya can grab it to do the lashins..ewww
catfish - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Wilde in his later years kept practically open house — “lashins of whisky and a good larder,” and was besides notorious for his gallantries.
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Lawdy, honey, I's tuk a thousand lashins in mah day.
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'This is elegant,' says he; 'here's lashins of' em. '
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various
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The sum is so small that one is constrained to believe the report that Sir William Wilde in his later years kept practically open house -- "lashins of whisky and a good larder," and was besides notorious for his gallantries.
Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910
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All the town, though, knew he was safe, and lashins of women and children turned out to see the comely soldiers hunt in vain till ten o'clock at night.
I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The answer, as you may say, is this -- but step a bit nigher, for there's lashins o 'room -- the answer, as far as that goes, is what I make to you, sayin' -- that if you wasn 'so passin' wet, may be I'd blurt out what I had i 'my mind.
I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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English, and therefore friends of liberty, they forced us to drink wine with them -- lashins of wine -- until just as my head was beginning to feel muzzy, some one called out that we were heroes and must drink the wine of heroes, the pride of Otta, the Invincible St. Cyprien.
Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
tim_retep commented on the word lashins
lashins - (Irish) large quantities
July 31, 2009
sionnach commented on the word lashins
If it's a really large quantity there'd be lashins and lavins (or possibly lashins and leavins). It's all very Palinesque, this droppin of those final g's.
July 31, 2009
tim_retep commented on the word lashins
It's a variant of lashings.
lashings - a great plenty; abundance (chiefly British)
July 31, 2009