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  • adjective Eye dialect spelling of like.
  • verb Eye dialect spelling of like.

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Examples

  • I know nowt about thy manny-ensisses, an 'I'll warrant tha does na know what such loike is thysen.

    That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story 1877

  • "Faith, in ould Oireland it's mesilf milked twinty cows at wan sittin ', an' they standin 'forninst me widout a word loike lambs till

    The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Elizabeth Strong Worthington

  • But "the masther" didn't "loike," not feeling disposed to trust a valuable animal to Dinny's tender mercies; so that gentleman turned upon his heel, and went back to the waggon-fire in disgust, and sat over it to "warrum" himself, though every one else was complaining of the heat.

    Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870

  • The naked concrete makes this thing look loike a pill box.

    House in Gerês by Correia Ragazzi Architects 2009

  • The massive Australian looked down at me over his desk and said, “Aye, looks loike yea gat a tach a the dayngi.”

    One From The Hart Stefanie Powers 2010

  • We will nuke our own counrty before your mentally ill breathren get it. now, I have not attack you or spit at you loike some of the trolls here, i have brought nothing but discussion and asked you to do the same.

    legitgov 2009

  • Odd, his father would brain him if he went to Carloisle, bating to wrestling for the belt, or sic loike.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • Feels loike ya fell doon a lift and got knobbed by a lorrie, innit?

    GWYNETH HELPS MADONNA 2008

  • ‘And is he here at present?’ said I. ‘Not he, not he; he is a buck-hoonting, as they tell me, somewhere up the Patterdale way; but he comes and gangs like a flap of a whirlwind, or sic loike.’

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • He was just telling me there was two men who came after ya, looking for ya, loike, asking questions.

    The Bloomsday Dead Adrian McKinty 2007

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  • love + like

    First misspelled by guns in NY

    April 6, 2009

  • Methinks the Irish probably got there first.

    April 7, 2009

  • Guns can spell?

    April 7, 2009