Word Study
lousy
CIDE DICTIONARY
lousy, a.
- Infested with lice. [1913 Webster]
- Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave. [1913 Webster]"Such lousy learning as this is."
- Very bad; as, to feel lousy; to do a lousy job. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lousy, adj. (lousier, lousiest)
1 infested with lice.
2 colloq. very bad; disgusting (also as a term of general disparagement).
3 colloq. (often foll. by with) well supplied, teeming (with).
1 infested with lice.
2 colloq. very bad; disgusting (also as a term of general disparagement).
3 colloq. (often foll. by with) well supplied, teeming (with).
Derivative
lousily adv. lousiness n.
THESAURUS
lousy
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