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   Where did the word lousy come from?

   • The word came to be in the mid-14th century. Then, it meant that something was infested with lice. Louse, the insect, comes from the Old English lus and has other cognates in other Germanic languages. In the late 14th century, port William Langland used the word lousy for the first time in the 1377 poem “Piers Plowman”:

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   What does lousy mean in slang?

   • slang. (Frequently crummy .) Lousy; filthy, dirty, untidy; inferior, shoddy, distasteful. Full of lice, infested by lice. Of or relating to a louse or lice; lousy. Of or relating to a louse or lice, esp. infested with lice. Also figurative: bad, contemptible, often used as a general term of abuse (cf. lousy, adj. … slang. (Frequently crummy .)

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   Where does the word louse come from?

   • The word louse comes from a common Germanic root, and in Old English its form was lus. We can see the word in one of Ælfric’s sermons, written in the closing years of the tenth century, in a passage about the plagues delivered upon Egypt prior to the Exodus:

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   What does Lousi mean in slang?

   • mid-14c., lousi, "infested with lice," from louse (n.) + -y (2). Figurative use as a generic adjective of abuse dates from late 14c.; sense of "swarming with" (money, etc.) is American English slang from 1843. Related: Lousiness. also from mid-14c. adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable. louse (n.)

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   Sep 28, 2017 · lousy (adj.) mid-14c., lousi, "infested with lice," from louse (n.) + -y (2). Figurative use as a generic adjective of abuse dates from late 14c.; sense of "swarming with" (money, etc.) is American English slang from 1843. Related: Lousiness.

   • 한국어 (Korean)

     lousy 뜻: 듬뿍 있는; 14세기 중반, "진드기로 오염된"을 뜻하는 lousi 는 louse (명사)와...

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   The earliest known use of the word lousy is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for lousy is from 1377, in the writing of William Langland, poet. lousy is formed within English, by derivation.

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   Sep 11, 2023 · The word louse comes from a common Germanic root, and in Old English its form was lus. We can see the word in one of Ælfric’s sermons, written in the closing years of the tenth century, in a passage about the plagues delivered upon Egypt prior to the Exodus:

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   Jun 2, 2024 · lousy ( comparative lousier, superlative lousiest) ( colloquial) Remarkably bad; of poor quality. No offense, but his cooking is lousy. ( colloquial) Dirty or untidy. I cleaned the lousy garage. ( colloquial) Unwell; under the weather .

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   Sep 28, 2017 · parasitic insect infesting human hair and skin, Old English lus, from Proto-Germanic *lus (source also of Old Norse lus, Middle Dutch luus, Dutch luis, Old High German lus, German Laus ), from PIE *lus- "louse" (source also of Welsh lleuen "louse"). The meaning "obnoxious person" is from 1630s.

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   Mar 8, 2021 · In 1843, the journal The Spirit of the Times, a United Stated paper, used the phrase lousy for the first time in print to mean “swarming with.”. “He was lousy with money, and dared any man to face him.”. Overall, the word lousy has two different definitions.

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   lousy adjective (INSULTING) [ before noun ] used to say that you feel insulted by something: All he offered me was a lousy 20 bucks (= a small amount of money)! SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Scarce, inadequate and not enough.