Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lidderon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lid-deron
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who is lazy, idle, or bad; rascal; scoundrel; a weakling.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"I leve we shall laugh and have liking / To see how this lidderon here he ledges our laws."
"My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree"

Etymology

From Middle English lidrone, from lidder, lither (“bad, wicked, false”), from Old English lȳþre (“bad, wicked, base, mean, corrupt, wretched”), from Proto-Germanic *lūþrijaz (“neglected, dissolute, useless, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“slack, limp”). More at lither.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: lidrone, lȳþre, *lūþrijaz, *(s)lew-

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

lidderons (plural)

Synonyms

goldbricker slacker knave rapscallion losel nonce

Questions

What does lidderon mean?: One who is lazy, idle, or bad; rascal; scoundrel; a weakling.
Where does lidderon come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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