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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Infested with lice.
  • adjective Extremely contemptible; nasty.
  • adjective Sick or unwell.
  • adjective Inferior or worthless.
  • adjective Slang Abundantly supplied.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Infested with lice.
  • Hence Degraded; mean; contemptible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Infested with lice.
  • adjective informal Mean; contemptible.
  • adjective Very bad.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Remarkably bad; of poor quality, dirty, or underhanded; mean, contemptible.
  • adjective Infested with lice.
  • adjective colloquial Filled or packed with something.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective vile; despicable
  • adjective infested with lice
  • adjective very bad

Etymologies

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From louse +‎ -y.

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