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loddere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
loddere, es; m.
A beggar, poor person
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  • Se ríca besihþ on his pællenum gyrlum and cwyþ 'Nis se loddere mid his tættecon mín gelíca

    but the rich man looks at his purple robes and says 'the beggar with his rags is not my fellow,'

    • Homl. Th. i. 256, 8
    • .
Etymology
[
Icel. loddari a tramp, juggler
:
cf. O. H. Ger. lotar cassus, vanus, inanis.
]
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v. lodrung.
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v.  lodrung.
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