int. Sc. colloq. [Short for ‘for the Lord’s sake.’] An exclamation expressing surprise.
1861. Ramsay, Remin., Ser. II. 91. ‘I am going to send the young laird abroad … to see the world’;… ‘But lordsake, Laird, will no the world see him?’
1891. ‘H. Haliburton,’ Ochil Idylls, 63. Lordsake, what’s come owre the year?
