pricklouse
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪklaʊs/
Noun
pricklouse (plural pricklice)
- (derogatory, now archaic, historical) A tailor; a lousy person.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.32:
- that woman […] by no threats or stripes would leave to call her husband pricke-lowse [transl. pouilleux], and being cast into a pond and duckt under water, lifted up her hands, and joyning her two thumbs-nailes in act to kill lice above her head, seemed to call him lousie still […].
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