Sc. Also luckie. [? f. LUCKY a. 6.] A familiar name for an elderly woman; spec. a grandmother. (Used as a form of address, and prefixed as a title to the proper name.) Also applied, jocularly or affectionately, to a woman of any age; a wife, mistress, etc. b. spec. The mistress of an ale-house, a landlady.
1717. Ramsay, Elegy on Lucky Wood, 30. Poor facers now may chew pea-hools, Since Lucky’s dead. Ibid. (1725), Gentle Sheph., II. lii. (init.), How does auld honest lucky of the glen?
1770. Bp. Forbes, Jrnl. (1886), 324. We dined at Lucky Mac Fun’s.
a. 1794. Lass of Ecclefechan, ii. in Burns’ Wks. O haud your tongue now, Luckie Laing. Ibid., Lady Onlie, i. ibid. Lady Onlie, honest Lucky, Brews guid ale at shore o’ Bucky.
1816. Scott, Antiq., iv. I said to Luckie Gemmels, ‘Never think you, Luckie,’ said I.
1827. Watt, Poems, 56 (E.D.D.). Gin the kye o’ milk be dryin’, Some luckie’s been her cantrips tryin’.
1857. Stewart, Character, 145 (E.D.D.). The gawcy change-house luckies lauch and mulct the drunken fule.
1893. Stevenson, Catriona, 134. Alan … must … carry on to the new luckie with the old story.
