luskishness

English

Etymology

From luskish +‎ -ness.

Noun

luskishness (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Laziness; sloth. [16th–17th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But, when he saw his foe before in vew, / He shooke off luskishnesse […]