词汇 | lousy |
词源 | lousy [ME] Lousy is based on louse, an Old English word of Germanic origin. It meant both ‘full of lice’, and ‘dirty, contemptible’ from early times. The sense ‘swarming, full, abundantly supplied’ as in lousy with tourists, lousy with money arose in US English in the mid 19th century. |
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