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lidderon

noun

Etymology

From Middle English lidrone, from lidder, lither (“bad, wicked, false”), from Old English lȳþre (“bad, wicked, base, mean, corrupt, wretched”), from Proto-Germanic *lūþrijaz (“neglected, dissolute, useless, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“slack, limp”). More at lither.

  1. derived from *(s)lew-✻ — “slack, limp”
  2. derived from *lūþrijaz✻ — “neglected, dissolute, useless, bad”
  3. derived from lȳþre — “bad, wicked, base, mean, corrupt, wretched”
  4. inherited from lidrone

Definitions

  1. One who is lazy, idle, or bad

    One who is lazy, idle, or bad; rascal; scoundrel; a weakling.

    • I leve we shall laugh and have liking / To see how this lidderon here he ledges our laws.
    • My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA