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lyðer-líc

  • adjective
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Grammar
lyðer-líc, adj.
Sordid, mean, vile
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  • Se cyning self mid swíðe lyðerlícum gegierelan

    ipse imperator sordida servilique tunica discinctus,

    • Ors. 4, 5
    • ;
    • Swt. 166, 16
    • .
Etymology
[
The word comes to mean lazy in later times.
Cf. Tusser 'some litherly lubber leaveth undone that another will do.'
]
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Word-wheel

  • lyðer-líc, adj.