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lith·er \ˈlithə(r)\ adjective Etymology: Middle English, bad, wicked, wretched, lazy, from Old English lȳthre bad, wicked, wretched; akin to Old English loddere beggar, Middle Low German lüder dissolute person, lodder shiftless person, Old High German lottar insignificant, empty, MHGliederlich slight, insignificant, Old Irish lott whore 1. now dialect England : disinclined to exertion : slothful, lazy 2. now dialect England a. : easily displaced : yielding < winged through the lither sky — Shakespeare > b. : supple and active : agile < boys … are made that lither — Maxwell Gray > |