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单词 lothen
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lothenadj.

Forms: Middle English lothen, Middle English lothyn.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic loðinn shaggy, thickly covered in hair (e.g. of a fleece), Old Swedish ludhin , lodhin (Swedish luden ), Old Danish lothæn (Danish lådden )), use as adjective of the past participle of an unattested strong Class II verb cognate with Old English lēodan to grow, spring up (see lede n.1).
Obsolete.
Hairy, shaggy.
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the world > life > the body > hair > types of hair > [adjective] > bushy, thick
roughOE
lothenc1440
bushed1535
shirl1567
shagged1587
shaga1596
bushya1609
thick1624
shaggy1638
moppy1725
tousled1847
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 1097 Lym and leskes full lothyn.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 778 Lothen and lothely, lokkes and oþer.
a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 12344 He sat, Rostyng a swyn gret & fat..His bryn, his berd, þer-wiþ al lothen [?a1400 Petyt was broþen] & al to-soilled wyþ þe spyk.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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