What does Laking mean?

[phylkat]

What does the phrase 'LAKING' mean?

An American friend asked me,because he was told it was an English term, but I've never heard of it. Anyone know? Th-U

[lancaster ci]

laking is an old yorkshire term for playing//my mates used to call at my house and my ma iff i was laking out/also when a person has time off work for no reason they are said to be laking

[Minnaloushe]

When I was a nipper growing up in Lancashire my Grandma would say "What yer laking at" if I was dilly dallying while walking.

[phylkat]

Thankyou 'i' & 'M' another source said "Playful" so that has cleared it up for me.

We in the south thought it may be from the North. lol

[Narolines]

I think in most glossaries of dialect words it's "laiking"; it is indeed from west of the Pennines and means timewasting or dawdling.

[nightmare]

It is not just west of the Pennines.
It is also used in several areas in God's Own Country(Yorkshire), and means playing, messing about, etc.
Sportsmen are described as good laikers.

[Narolines]

Thanks for that info, nightmare. My grandfather came from Keighley, and I never heard him use the word; I've only come across it in use in south Lancashire and the Cheshire plain. I'm quite prepared, however, to accept that it does exist on the "proper" side of the Pennines!

[chillipepper]

As all correspondants have shown it refers to playing or dawdeling. I believe it's a corruption of larking, as in "larking about"

[phylkat]

Thankyou to all who took an interest, problem solved now me-thinks. There may be some truth in the "Larking" theory too,

pk lol

[VS Prasad]

Inflected Form(s): laked; lak�ing
transitive verb : to cause (blood) to undergo a physiological change in which the hemoglobin becomes dissolved in the plasma
intransitive verb, of blood : to undergo the process by which hemoglobin becomes dissolved in the plasma

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dic tionary&va=laking