Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryInsufficient and less than expected of a good thing. · Remarkably bad; of poor quality. · Dirty or untidy. · Underhanded; mean; contemptible.
From Middle English lousy, lowsy, lousi, equivalent to louse + -y.
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