Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin pediculosus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The pediculous condition made frequent treatment necessary for comfort.”
“This stuff, when not purified by the lustration of fire, rots uncleanly into something we call life; seized through all its atoms with a pediculous malady; swelling in tumours that become independent, sometimes even (by an abhorrent prodigy) locomotory; one splitting into millions, millions cohering into one, as the malady proceeds through varying stages.”
“I devour the pediculous corpse Whetting my palate as I exhume The festering stench of rotting flesh Makes me drool as I consume ...”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘pediculous’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Kingly epithets
Take one of CharlesFerdinand's excellent Merovingians or Goths, add a "the" and one of these descriptors, and presto, a character for your long-planned spoof fantasy novel.
unlikely, chuckleheaded, aloof, lacklustre, slow, murky, neurotic, clichéd, pediculous, dour, bungling, dandy and 23 more...
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sniglets
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beeramid, facon, ignoranus, mopeeps, flarn, abjective, sarchasm, painoply, bipolaroid, astroflex, explorinate, douchehold and 3 more...
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reesetee I do love "lousy" when used that way, uncleosbert. Unfortunately, it's rarely used that way anymore. :-) Aug 20, 2007
slumry Or silly feet--ped=feet+ridiculous Aug 13, 2007
uncleosbert it is not, repeat NOT "infested with headlice"
http://wordimperfect.blogspot.com/2007/05/pediculous.html
we can win this one, wordies. "infested with headlice" is much more honest when it appears on the note pinned to your kid's shirt than "pediculous". that makes you run to the dictionary, then the pharmacy. and there's a perfectly good alternate... "lousy". pediculous needs its own definition, to free it from medicine; taking all the good words and ruining them for the rest of us. we need this one back...
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Aug 13, 2007