laidly

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English

Etymology

Compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French laid (ugly).

Adjective

laidly (comparative more laidly, superlative most laidly)

  1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) ugly; loathsome
    • W. Howitt
      this laidly and loathsome worm

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for laidly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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