Lyðer-líc

Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon de Bosworth & Toller - lyðer-líc

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

lyðer-líc
adj. Sordid, mean, vile :-- Se cyning self mid swíðe lyðerlícum gegierelan ipse imperator sordida servilique tunica discinctus, Ors. 4, 5; Swt. 166, 16. [The word comes to mean lazy in later times. Cf. Tusser 'some litherly lubber leaveth undone that another will do.'] lyþer-lic,lyðer-lic
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