Where does lustihood come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

lustihood

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"I'll prove it on his body, if he dare, Despite his nice fence and his active practice, His May of youth and bloom of lustihood."

From lusty + -hood, alteration of earlier lustihead, from Middle English lustyhede, lustiheed. Cognate with Dutch lustigheid, Middle Low German lusticheit, German Lustigkeit, Danish lustighed, Swedish lustighet.

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