Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Lazy or slothful. · Full; ripe.
noun
A lazy or slothful person.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo be idle or unemployed.
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.
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