lessgo

English

Phrase

lessgo

1. Pronunciation spelling of let's go.
   • 1891 December 3, ““Come, M’lishy, Come!””, in Humboldt County Republican‎^[1], volume III, number 33, Humboldt, Iowa:

     “No, suh, that four-moon business settles me! It’s just one thing more’n I can stand! Come, M’lishy, less go!”

   • 1903 September 14, “Gum Chewers Bruising English”, in The Sun, volume VII, number 259, Chanute, Kan., page 4:

     “Aincha hungry?” “Yeh.” “So my. Less go neet.” “Where?”

   • 1913, Frederick Houk Law, Mastery of Speech, a Course in Eight Parts on General Speech, Business Talking and Public Speaking, What to Say and How to Say It under All Conditions, page 50:

     “Lessgo over by the fakry an see if they’re playngame.”

   • 1915 January 20, The Daily Times, volume XXIX, number 30, Davenport, Iowa, page 3:

     “Y’all through?” “Yeah.” “So’m I.” “Lessgo.”

   • 1917 August 7, “Mr. S. Treet Walker Has a Grouch”, in The Daily Hammer‎^[2], volume 85, number 1:

     So now I think I will hie me to some little nickle lunch and get something to eat. Whaddya say? Awright, lessgo.

   • 1957, New Directions in Prose and Poetry, page 93:

     “This boy Victor’s going to show us where.” “Well lessgo, lessgo!”

   • 1974, Aphra, page 50:

     “Who us? We got all day tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that. We got all the time in the world to go to bed. But you, you’re a doctor, and doctors have bedtimes. Come on, ya’ll, lessgo.”

   • 2016, Janey Mack, Shoot ’em Up (A Maisie McGrane Mystery), Kensington Books, →ISBN:

     “Lessgo.” “Don’t you want to say good night?” I pointed at the tent. “Nah.” He reeked of tequila. Like he’d taken a shower in it. “Lessgo.”