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lask

Pronunciation: /lɑːsk/

The English word “lask” has 3 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To have loose bowels; to suffer from diarrhoea.

adjective

  1. Lax, weak; specifically of the bowels: affected by diarrhoea; loose.

noun

  1. Originally of both persons and animals, now only of animals: looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea; (countable) a bout of this ailment.

Etymology

From Middle English lasken (“to diminish, weaken (the blood or other body fluids, body tissues, etc.); to thin (the blood through bloodletting); to alleviate (pain, sickness); to grow weak; to shorten (one’s life)”) [and other forms], from Old Northern French *lasquer, Old French lascher, laschier (“to let go of, release; to loosen, relax”) (modern French lâcher (“to let go of, release; to…

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