lous

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• IPA^(key): /ˈluːs/

lous

1. dirty

• IPA^(key): /lus/

lous

1. bear

• lows, lowse, louse, lowce, luse

From Old English lūs.

• IPA^(key): /luːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

lous (plural lys)

1. louse (insect in the order Psocodea)
2. A person or thing worthy of contempt or ostracism.

• English: louse
• Scots: louse, loose

• “lǒus(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-28.

lous

1. Alternative form of lhowse
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 10, page 88:

     Tommeen was lous, an zo was ee baree.

     Tommy was open, and so was the goal.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 88