louse
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /laʊs/
louse (plural lice)
- A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Psocodea.
- (colloquial, dated, not usually used in plural form) A contemptible person; one who is deceitful or causes harm.
- 1946, Joseph Thompson Shaw, The hard-boiled omnibus: early stories from Black Mask (page 388)
- He said: "Thanks, friend; but you're wasting your time. You better warn Crocker. If that louse makes a play for me, he'll get hit with Chicago lightning!"
- 1949, Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend (song)
- It's then that those louses go back to their spouses. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
- 1946, Joseph Thompson Shaw, The hard-boiled omnibus: early stories from Black Mask (page 388)
- French: salaud, salaude, salop, salope, salopard, saloparde
- German: Dreckskerl, Dreckkerl, Lumpenhund, Lumpenkerl
- Portuguese: piolho, sem-vergonha, canalha
- Russian: гни́да
- Spanish: sinvergüenza, canalla
louse (louses, present participle lousing; past and past participle loused)
- To remove lice from.
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