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Lidderon

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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.

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