Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hurt.
- noun A Middle English form of
lease , leash. - To lose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To lose.
- transitive verb obsolete To hurt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
lose . - verb obsolete To
release ,set free . - verb obsolete To
loosen ,unfasten .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"leese" as they call it, crossed the threads correctly and was full of my triump.
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It is too dismissive to equate education with a year in jail (college like jail? per-leese!) to get 18 months extra life - because the education effect is only one measure of the several positive effects of education - on salaries, happiness and so on.
Schooling and Health, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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April 16, 2010 at 6:48 pm sum tymes teh black toesesses remindz me uv teh blackberree fruitz –bof luk gud enuff tu eet, oar at leese kiss!
Li’l Pink Jellybean Toes… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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There are thief-proof hangers (oh puh-leese) and no full-length mirror (so if I hit the bar with my dress tucked into my knickers, it won't be my fault).
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Oh, puh-leese, Mr. Pinko, the USSR is dead, McCarthy was right, and your side lost.
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June 11, 2008 at 3:40 pm giglol… adn awn mai sied, Aye thawt itz becawz Aye starded ah majurr guardin oberhawl Pixtur roly-poly, red-fayzed, grey-hared laydii wheel, fee-mail at leese hoppin op & down ahn teh shubbel, splainin tu teh forsythia wut mai opiyun ob dere ant-cess-tree wuz…
uh… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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At leese Ai can afford it and many deerz in my yard.
u hav dis meny secunz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I read her annoyance through her blue-veined eyelids: Puh-leese!
Sheila Weller: Life-Lessons From My Mother, The National Enquirer Scoop Artist 2008
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At leese it not be teh Naugahyde or teh Pleh-ther.
The Law of Grabbity - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Certainly they are to be repressed, or at least well guarded: for they cloud the mind; they leese friends; and they check with business, whereby business cannot go on currently and constantly.
The Essays 2007
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