lidderon

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lidderon

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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.

noun lidderons

archaic, dialectal, rare One who is lazy, idle, or bad; rascal; scoundrel; a weakling. I leve we shall laugh and have liking / To see how this lidderon here he ledges our laws.
Similar: goldbricker, slacker, rapscallion, losel, nonce, knave

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@misc{lidderon_2026,
  title = {lidderon},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lidderon},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}