Lack

LACK, v.1 Irel. Bdf. Ken. Sus. Hmp. I.W. Som. Dev.
Cor. Also in forms lackee Dev.1; lacky w.Som.1 Cor.;
lauck, lock Wxf.1 [lak, læk.] 1. To be in need of; to
fall short of; to miss.
Wxf.1, Ken.2 I.W.1 I lacks zum moour beer. Som. Me heart
was nigh broke wi' lacken' an' longen', Leith Lemon Verbena
(1895) 6. w.Som.1 The most usual word, esp. in the hill district.
‘My Tommy was vourteen months old, lack a day, when my man
was a brought in dead.’ ‘I count you do lack vor ate some more
beef an' pudden avore you'll be able vor t'an'le thick.’ Dev.1 I'm
a guess I've a be lack'd, 14. Cor. To buy a pound o' backy, That us
and measter wonderfully lacky, Cornwall, in Gent. Mag. (1762) 287.
2. To be absent, esp. from home; to loiter.
w.Som.1 Can er depend 'pon ee, eens you 'on't lacky hon the
time do come? Dev. Lackeeing indel an' ondel ruze th' contrazide
vro' cock-leart ter dimmet, Madox-Brown Dwale Bluth (1876)
II. v; Dev.1 Why did a lackee so long and make ma keep et
zimmering in the crock? 12. n.Dev. Tha wut lackee an overwhile
avore tha coms't, Exm. Scold. (1746) l. 199.
Hence (1) Lacker, adj. absent from and missed at home;
(2) Lackish, slow, backward, reluctant to act.
(1) n.Dev. Holloway. (2) Bdf. Very lackish to do't (J.W.B.).
3. To desire, wish.
Sus. I don't lack any poor fellur to get hisself in sich a mess as
I did, Lower Jan Cladpole (1872) 4. Hmp.1 I lacks to go.
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LACK, v.2 and sb. Sc. Der. Lei. e.An. s.Cy. Also
written lak Sc.; and in form lake Sc. [lak.] 1. v. To
dispraise, slight, undervalue; to malign, calumniate.
Sc. He that laks my mare would buy my mare, Herd Coll. Sngs.
(1776) Gl. Bnff.1 Bch. Sadly me she sham'd and lacked, Forbes
Dominie (1785) 39. Abd. I didna mean to lack The ane, when I
but of the other spak, Ross Helenore (1768) 84, ed. 1812. Edb.
When that I buy, this my use, What I would have I loath and
lack, Pennecuik Wks. (1715) 393, ed. 1815. e.An.1, e.Suf. (F.H.)
s.Cy. Ray (1691).
2. sb. The act of vilifying. Bnff.1
3. A disgrace, scandal.
Sc. Ye've married een below our degree, A lake to a' our kin,
Kinloch Ballads (1827) 203.
4. Loss, harm, damage. Lei.1 He won't take lack.
5. Phr. to take the lack, obs., to be slighted, jilted, used of
a lover when he departs suddenly. Der.1
[1. Yit somwhat lakken him wolde she, CHAUCER R.
Rose, 284. 5. EFris. laken, ‘tadeln, schmähen, schimpfen;
Redensart (in Bezug auf Mädchen die einen Freier erst
verachten u. schlecht machen)’ (Koolman).]
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LACK, v.9 e.An.1 Also in form lag. [læk.] Of a
goose: to come repeatedly to, and continue for some time
in her nest. Cf. lag, int.
Said to be a sign of her desiring incubation.
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LACK(-, see Lache, Lawk(s.
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LACK, sb. 4. s.Not. (J.P.K.)