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Definition of lief in English: liefadverb liːflif as liefarchaic As happily; as gladly. 〈古〉欣然，乐意 he would just as lief eat a pincushion 吃缝衣针他都心甘情愿。 Example sentencesExamples - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
- ‘I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician,’ said bibulous Sir Andrew Ague-cheek.
- Here is W. S. Gilbert's spoof line, ‘I would as lief be thrust through a thicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle’.
- As for the first, I would as lief pray with him as with any man.
- I figgered, an’ we had the stuff, we'd jist as lief knock together somethin’ tha’ didn’ take an expert t’ aim.
Synonyms with pleasure, happily, cheerfully
OriginOld English lēof 'dear, pleasant', of Germanic origin: related to leave2 and love. Rhymesaperitif, beef, belief, brief, chief, enfeoff, fief, grief, interleaf, leaf, Leif, Mazar-e-Sharif, misbelief, motif, naif, O'Keeffe, reef, seif, Sharif, sheaf, shereef, sportif, Tenerife, thief Definition of lief in US English: liefadverblēflif as liefarchaic As happily; as gladly. 〈古〉欣然，乐意 he would just as lief eat a pincushion 吃缝衣针他都心甘情愿。 Example sentencesExamples - ‘I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician,’ said bibulous Sir Andrew Ague-cheek.
- I figgered, an’ we had the stuff, we'd jist as lief knock together somethin’ tha’ didn’ take an expert t’ aim.
- Here is W. S. Gilbert's spoof line, ‘I would as lief be thrust through a thicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle’.
- Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
- As for the first, I would as lief pray with him as with any man.
Synonyms with pleasure, happily, cheerfully
OriginOld English lēof ‘dear, pleasant’, of Germanic origin: related to leave and love. |