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Luskishness

LUSK'ISHNESS

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Noun.
Disposition to indolence; laziness. Obs.

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luskishness

luskishness

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Noun

luskishness (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Laziness; sloth. [16th-17th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.1:
      But, when he saw his foe before in vew, / He shooke off luskishnesse […].