AUDI
(b) Archaeology. Applied to remains of the lower Aurignacian period resembling those found at l’Abri “Audi”, a rock-shelter near Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France, and to the culture they represent. A toponym. 1921: “In the Audi tool, the pointed knife-edge is produced by a flake struck off the flint, this edge being sometimes trimmed.”
LOOEY
(c) Lieutenant. North American slang, after US pronunciation. 1928: “Then the looeys started hollering to the sergeants.”
BASTARDA
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(b) A Gothic script used in France and Germany during the 14th and 15th centuries. Adaptation of the Italian. 1934: “For theological texts a less formal and rounded letter was used, for works in the vernacular, a still less formal and cursive hand known as Bastarda.”
LONK
(a) A large-sized variety of mountain sheep which originated in Lancashire or Yorkshire. The wool of this variety of sheep. Dialect variant of “Lank”, the first syllable of Lancashire. 1972: “The dark patch could be a sheep. Ye-es . . . it could be some stupid wandering Lonk.”