lunzie

English

Etymology

From Scots.

Noun

lunzie (plural lunzies)

1. (UK, dialectal, chiefly Northern England, archaic) Waist.
   • 1771, Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker:

     Filling his glass, and calling him by name, “Lang life," said he, “to the wylie loon that gangs afield with a toom poke at his lunzie, and comes hame with a sackful o' siller."

   • 1827, William Tennant, Papistry storm'd: or, The Dingin' down o' the cathedral, page 14:

     He gave his lunzie sic a lounder As did the sillie man dumfounder.

   • 1871, Sir David Lindsay, The Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, page 14:

     Solace, sure that sall be no sunzie, Beir ye that bag upon your lunzie, Now sirs, win weill your wage