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Definition of Louse up
1. Verb. Make a mess of, destroy or ruin. "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Generic synonyms: Fail, Go Wrong, Miscarry
Derivative terms: Ballup, Botch, Botcher, Bumbler, Bungle, Bungler, Flub, Fluff, Foul-up, Fuckup, Fumbler, Mess-up, Screwup, Spoil, Spoilage, Spoiling
Definition of Louse up
1. Verb. (idiomatic colloquial) To mess up; to confuse; to put into a state of disorder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Louse Up
Literary usage of Louse up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1907)
"To cut down mountain timber is louse up the strength of the soil with a bad and
improvident heart, and so to invite great calamities. ..."
2. Adrift in America: Or, Work and Adventure in the States by Cecil Roberts (1891)
"... consists in banking the louse up all round with stable manure. If there is
enough manure this is done to a thickness of several feet, and as high up as ..."
3. Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane (1885)
"Her mother told her and said : " Shut the louse up in a box and feed it. As soon
as it is very large, we will have a pair of gloves made of its skin ; these ..."
4. Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical by James Robert Boyd (1862)
"But, above all, we admire Mr. Dana, more than any other American poet, because
he "a* aimed not merely to please the imagination, but to louse up the soul ..."
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