leddy

Then a slight shock, and I found myself clasping the "leddy" firmly round the neck.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 24, 1920 Various 1898

Usually no Friday night is complete without a sit-down in front of one of the channel's compilations from the vault, but as such staples of the Seventies airwaves as Kris Kristofferson gave way to Buffy Sainte-Marie and Dory Previn to Don Williams, one began, sadly, to think that one could have enough of limping acoustic guitars, earnestness, facial hair, smock-dresses and constant reminders that you were a lady (pronounced "leddy") and I was a man, so really we ought to get it together.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

I noticed that while his Scots was less pronounced than that of the man called Murtagh, his accent was still broad enough that the word was almost, though not quite, "leddy."

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

"And \expndtw6 your young leddy." \cf0\expndtw0\par

Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010

“See there, see there,” said Martin, “you see the leddy has twice our sense.”

The Monastery 2008

“Ye hae nae reason to doubt my leddy, or ony thing she says or does, Dame Glendinning,” said the faithful Tibb, something offended;

The Monastery 2008

But, to say truth, there is a leddy sits in our hall-neuk, maun have her hand in that as weel as in every other job.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

“And what might the white leddy be?” said Elspeth;

The Monastery 2008

“The wean saw something like a white leddy that weised us the gate,” said Tibb; “when we were like to hae perished in the moss-hags — certain it was that Shagram reisted, and I ken Martin thinks he saw something.”

The Monastery 2008

In this dilemma, the child suddenly exclaimed — “Bonny leddy signs to us to come yon gate.”

The Monastery 2008