different between lusk vs lask

English

Etymology

From Middle English *lusk, from Old Norse l?skr (“weak, idle”), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“sluggish, dull, lazy”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?yd- (“to let, subside”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lasch (“flabby, loose”), Middle Low German lasch, las (“tired, dull”). Doublet of lush.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?sk/
• Rhymes: -?sk

Adjective

lusk (comparative more lusk, superlative most lusk)

1. lazy or slothful
2. (Britain, dialectal) full; ripe

Noun

lusk (plural lusks)

1. a lazy or slothful person

   (Can we find and add a quotation of T. Kendall to this entry?)

Verb

lusk (third-person singular simple present lusks, present participle lusking, simple past and past participle lusked)

1. (obsolete) To be idle or unemployed.

Anagrams

• sulk

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lusk?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?lusk]
• Hyphenation: lusk

Noun

lusk m inan

1. pod (of a leguminous plant)

Declension

Further reading

• lusk in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• lusk in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

lusk

1. sneaky acts; covert operations
   • 2017, Knud H. Thomsen, Borgmesteren i Monteporco, Gyldendal A/S ?ISBN

     Allerede da jeg førte mit regiment i Abessinien og indtog byen Sokota, mærkede jeg, at der var noget lusk. Ikke et menneske at se! Aha, tænkte jeg, snigskytter på tagene, dynamit i kældrene, masser af bevæbnede sorte bag næste hjørne.

   • 2016, Inge Fischer Sørensen, Det sku' være så godt!, Lindhardt og Ringhof ?ISBN

     »Der er lusk i foretagendet!« Rie kneb det ene øje i og troede, at hun så fiffig ud. »Det lugter langt væk af lusk.«

   • 2016, Anders Westenholz, Tale er guld: Mere om over- og undertoner i den daglige samtale, Lindhardt og Ringhof ?ISBN

     En tilhører kan få mistanke om, at der er lusk i foretagendet – og mistanken forstærkes, når Brian – helt atypisk – klart giver til kende, at han har lektier for.

Declension

Indeclinable.

Related terms

• luske
• luskebuks
• lusket

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lusk?.

Noun

l?sk m inan

1. (botany) silique

Derived terms

• luš?ek

Further reading

• “lusk”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

English

Etymology

From Old Northern French *lasque, from lasker ‘to loosen’ (corresponding to standard Old French lascher > French lâcher).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??sk/, /læsk/
• Rhymes: -æsk

Noun

lask (plural lasks)

1. Diarrhoea (now only of animals).
   • , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:

     A grave and learned minister, and an ordinary preacher at Alkmaar in Holland, was (one day as he walked in the fields for his recreation) suddenly taken with a lask or looseness, and thereupon compelled to retire to the next ditch […].

   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, Folio Society 2007, p. 150:

     The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the colic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels […].

Anagrams

• Salk, alks

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) laskõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *laskedak.

Verb

lask

1. let