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(noun) - (1) A greater load than can well be carried at one time, but is nevertheless undertaken to save the trouble of another journey--a lazy man's load. Old English lither, bad, wicked, has a secondary meaning of "lazy" in some of our early writers. John Ray gives "lither, idle, lazy, slothful," in North Country Words 1691; John Jamieson Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 1808 has "lidder, sluggishness, and lythyrnes, sloth." --Georgina Jackson's Shropshire Word-Book, 1879 (2) Hence, lidderie, feeble, lazy; litherly, idly, lazily; litherums, idleness. --Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1898-1905
January 26, 2018