Lask vs Lauk - What's the difference?
lask | lauk |
Diarrhoea (now only of animals).
*, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:
*:A grave and learned minister, and an ordinary preacher at Alkmaar in Holland, was (one day as he walked in the fields for his recreation) suddenly taken with a lask or looseness, and thereupon compelled to retire to the next ditch […].
* 1653 , Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician , Folio Society 2007, p. 150:
* 1861 , , Philadelphia (1861), page
As a noun lask
is diarrhoea (now only of animals).As an interjection lauk is
an alternative form of lang=en.lask
English
Noun
(en noun)- The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the colic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels […].
lauk
English
Interjection
(en interjection)77:
- Lauk a mercy on me... .