lig meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

lig

verb

/lɪɡ/

Etymology From Middle English liggen, from Old English liċġan (“to lie, be situated, be at rest, remain”) and Old Norse liggja (“to lie”). More at lie.

Cumbria, Yorkshire To lie; be in a prostrate or recumbent position.

His limbes would rest, ne lig in ease embost1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Cumbria, Yorkshire To lay.

Slang To be a ligger or hanger-on; to freeload.

[…] but within the confines of the music business it means the pinnacle of a career dedicated to ligging […]1991, Blues & Soul, numbers 589-601, page 32:

Derived terms: lig down, lig on, lig out
Related terms: ligger

lig

noun

Etymology Probably from Middle English *ligge, from Old Norse lygi (“a lie”), from Proto-Germanic *lugį̄ (“lie, falsehood”). Cognate with Old English lyġe and lyġen.

UK, Obsolete, Slang A lie; an untruth.

And the Muse of Arts that never told a lig, / Whirls in her mid-air flight to sing of Twigg; […]1867, James Torrington Spencer Lidstone, The Fourteenth Londoniad, page 85: