Sc. A distortion of LORD, used in certain exclamations.
a. 1779. D. Graham, Leper the Taylor (1785), 17. The losh preserve me, sirs.
1792. G. Galloway, Poems, 40. Tax shoon! losh how the snobs will glunch.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 244. Losh me! that’s beautiful language.
1901. Blackw. Mag., March, 363/1. ‘Losh! the body’s cracked.’
