lidderon

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who is lazy, idle, or bad; rascal; scoundrel; a weakling. archaic,dialectal,rare
    — I leve we shall laugh and have liking / To see how this lidderon here he ledges our laws.

词形变化

lidderons plural

词源

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.
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