L

These are some of the interesting entries from the alphabet L in the OALD:

1. Lapdog: (disapproving) a person who is under the control of another person or group
2. Largish: fairly large
3. Lark about/around: to enjoy yourself by behaving in a silly way
4. Lascivious=libidinous=lecherous!
5. Lassitude: (formal) a state of feeling very tired in mind or body
6. Latchkey: a key for the front/outer door of the house
7. Latchkey Child/kid: a child who is at home alone after school because the parents are at work (disapproving)
8. Lateral thinking!
9. Get into a leather/work yourself into a leather: to be anxious or angry especially when it is not necessary
10. Do something for a laugh/for laughs: do something for fun or as a joke
11. Laugh vis-a-vis Cackle/Chuckle/Giggle/Guffaw/Roar/Snigger/Snicker/Titter
12. Convulsed with laughter/dissolve into laughter/Shriek with laughter/Howl with laughter
13. Lavatorial!
14. Go down like a lead baloon!
15. Without so much as a by your leave/without a by your leave
16. Lectern~Podium
17. Have two left feet!
18. Not to have a leg to stand on!
19. Legwork

1. Leprechaun: a creature like a little man with magical powers (~Irish stories)
2. Without let or hindrance: unhindered
3. Keep a lid on something/Put a lid on something/blow the lid off sth
4. (the) light dawned on somebody
5. Lissom(e): ~body!
6. Twist/wrap/wind somebody around your little finger
7. live in sin! (old-fashioned/humorous)
8. How long is a piece of string? (BrE, spoken) used to say that there is no definite answer to a question: ‘How long will it take?’ ‘How long is ~ string!’
9. Different ways of looking:
   1. gaze
   2. peer
   3. stare
   4. glare
   5. glance
   6. eye
   7. scan
   8. examine
   9. study
   10. inspect
   11. squint
10. For the love of God, tell me what he said!
11. Lots of love, Jenny
12. Not for love or money!
13. Love-hate relationship
14. Lovelorn! (aka me). Also Lovesick
15. Love nest! Oops!
16. Lowbrow/Highbrow/Middlebrow
17. Lower yourself by doing something
18. Any luck?
19. As luck would have it
20. Lynch mob!
21. Lurid
    1. too bright in colour that is not attractive
    2. (a story or piece of writing) shocking or violent in a way that is deliberate

Alphabet L of the dictionary is over! Hurrah! Now time to Luxuriate and time for Lullaby! From tomorrow, I’ll revise the alphabet L regularly and begin with some new pages of the dictionary! If you love words, you must join A Word  A Day (AWAD).

Time for some diary entry! This is almost 11 PM, 20 January, 2009. I have to do the following in the next 24 hours without fail:

1. Sleep by midnight after eating microwaved corn (yummy!) and oiling my hair
2. Get up by 6.30 AM
3. Switch on the water heater
4. grab shoes, change clothes, go running early morning, follow with some weightlifting in the room; take fresh measurement of weight and waist.
5. Shave, Brush, take bath, wash some clothes, clean/wipe/tidy the room, clip nails, shampoo hair,
6. Breakfast
7. Type RTI for UPSC, reminder on RTI for MTNL and an RTI for DTC
8. Submit another RTI to JNU on UPSC CSE related matters in campus
9. Read/archive all newspapers
10. Visit MTNL, UPSC
11. Write a limerick on that wonderful website
12. Some pages of the dictionary
13. Eat porridge, sprouts, grams, one oranage and only small amount of groundnuts, dates
14. Take my 3 DVDs lying with someone
15. Wear contact lens tomorrow
16. Back up data/music in DVDs
17. Read on my research
18. Make questionnaire for coachings
19. Phone some institutes to seek appointment
20. Print out form of the application
21. Take three films from the neighbour for my collection
22. Speak for at least 10 minutes
23. Do not waste time, come what may! Spend the day like it’s your last!
24. Amen!
25. Goodnight world!