Lasht

Lasht

Adjective (dialect) · /læʃt/

Definition

(Northern English and Scottish dialect) exhausted, worn out, utterly fatigued; completely spent after sustained effort or activity. Used in regional speech particularly in parts of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and Scotland.

Origin

Dialectal variant, possibly from lash (to tire, to exhaust) used as a past participle, or from Old Norse laskr (weak, feeble). The dialect use of lasht for exhausted appears in regional glossaries from the 18th and 19th centuries and survives in colloquial speech in parts of northern England.