lidge

• IPA^(key): /lɪd͡ʒ/

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lidge (plural lidges)

1. Obsolete form of ledge.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Streight was the passage , like a ploughed ridge ,
     That , if two met , the one mote needs fall o'er the lidge

lidge (not comparable)

1. MLE form of legit
   • 2018 February 17, Fumez the Engineer (music), “Plugged In Freestyle”‎, performed by Mitch, 0:45:

     First in GMG to make a hundred quid
     Broad day and hid
     I did bootings in a bid
     Who'd thought I'd make it lidge?

   • 2021 August 17, “London Scammer (Remix)”‎, performed by Tankz ft. Tarm, 2:20:

     I love these bands, I can't go lidge, Immma scam trap or hit them licks

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• “lidge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Glide, gelid, glide, liged

From Middle English luggen.

lidge (simple past lidg'd)

1. to lie, lay, lodge
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Lidge w'ous.

     Lie with us.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 54