lashins
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
lashins pl (plural only)
- Archaic form of lashings (“lots; a great amount”).
- 1864, William Evans Burton, The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor, page 603:
- […] potatoes, bacon, cabbage, and lashins of whiskey, […]
- 1868, William Carleton, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, volume 1, page 10:
- […] and gave him a rousin' wake into the bargain, with lashins of whiskey, stout beer, and ale; […]
References[edit]
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary