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Definition of Litherly
1. a. Crafty; cunning; mischievous; wicked; treacherous; lazy.
Definition of Litherly
1. mischievous [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Litherly
Literary usage of Litherly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"A clerk had litherly beset his while. But if he could a carpenter beguile.—Chaucer.
Luther laws, bad laws ; lather dede, wicked action. ..."
2. Seinte Marherete the Meiden Ant Martyr, in Old English by Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Margaret (1866)
"... (killers) laid so | litherly (badly) on her leik (body) [ that the blood burst
out; | and streamed adown from her body | as a stream doth from a spring. ..."
3. The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets by Charles Mackay (1874)
"If he were as long as he is Uther, he might thatch a house without a ladder.—Cheshire
Proverb. The dwarf was waspish, arch, and litherly. ..."
4. Dialect of Craven, in the Westriding of the County of York: With a Copious by William Carr (1828)
"Doug. Virg. p. 391. I' lither man's guise, Is nivver to bed And nivver to rise.
Proverb litherly, Idly. This word is rarely used. ..."
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