Pricklouse

//ˈpɹɪklaʊs//

"Pricklouse" in a Sentence (2 examples)

When she was under Water, and could call him Pricklouse no longer with her Lips, she held up her Hands over her Head

that woman […] by no threats or stripes would leave to call her husband pricke-lowse [translating pouilleux], and being cast into a pond and duckt under water, lifted up her hands, and joyning her two thumbs-nailes in act to kill lice above her head, seemed to call him lousie still […].

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