Lusk
//lʌsk// adj, name, noun, verb
adj, name, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A lazy or slothful person.
"But whom he sees to labor prest, theim lets he still alone: He labor lothes, and loues the luske, to ease and pleasure prone"
Verb
- 1 To be idle or unemployed. obsolete
Adjective
- 1 Lazy or slothful.
- 2 Full; ripe. UK, dialectal
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A town in Fingal, formerly in County Dublin, Ireland. countable, uncountable
- 3 An unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri, United States. countable, uncountable
- 4 An unincorporated community in Bledsoe County, Tennessee, United States. countable, uncountable
- 5 A town, the county seat of Niobrara County, Wyoming, United States. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"But whom he sees to labor prest, theim lets he still alone: He labor lothes, and loues the luske, to ease and pleasure prone"
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English *lusk, from Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, idle”), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“sluggish, dull, lazy”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēyd- (“to let, subside”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lasch (“flabby, loose”), Middle Low German lasch, las (“tired, dull”). Doublet of lush.
Etymology 2
Probably a variant of Leask.
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