overlusty
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
overlusty (comparative more overlusty, superlative most overlusty)
- Too lusty or lively.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
- when a man is over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks
References[edit]
- “overlusty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.