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English
Etymology
From Middle English lidrone, from lidder, lither (“bad, wicked, false”), from Old English lȳþre (“bad, wicked, base, mean, corrupt, wretched”), from Proto-Germanic *lūþrijaz (“neglected, dissolute, useless, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“slack, limp”). More at lither.
Noun
lidderon (plural lidderons)
- (rare, archaic, dialectal) One who is lazy, idle, or bad; rascal; scoundrel; a weakling.
c. 14th–15th century, "The York Realist" (real name unknown), “Trial Before Herod”, in The York Mystery Plays, York; republished as “The Litsters: Christ Before Herod”, in Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, editors, York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, →ISBN, lines 167–168:I leve we shall laugh and have liking / To see how this lidderon here he ledges our laws.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
- My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
But my learning is of another degree
To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.
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