Definitions for louse

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Spelling: [noun lous; verb lous, louz]

IPA: /noun laʊs; verb laʊs, laʊz/

Louse is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in louse (elosu).

Definitions for louse

noun

1. any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
2. any insect of the order Mallophaga (bird louse, biting louse, or chewing louse) parasitic on birds and mammals, having mouthparts adapted for biting.
3. plant louse.
4. Slang. a contemptible person, especially an unethical one.

Verb phrases

1. louse up, Slang. to spoil; botch:

verb (used with object)

1. to delouse.

Origin of louse

before 900; 1910-15 for def 4; Middle English lous(e), luse, plural lise, lice; Old English lūs, plural lȳs; cognate with Dutch luis, German Laus, Old Norse lūs

Examples for louse

This not only makes you look like a louse, it makes you look like a helpless, bed-wetting man-child.

There's always stuff in the way to louse up a good flight plan.

When Silajdzic raised this, Milosevic said, “I am not a louse,” and yielded immediately.

His spineless duplicity confirms that the good guy is actually pretty much a louse.

Said the other: "I will become a louse, so as to be able to stay always in her bosom."

I discovered my first louse while I was at luncheon in the trenches.

The man might be a louse, but he was also a fighting machine of first order, still.

Dont claw your back as if after a flea; or your head, as if after a louse.

The man has not the soul of a louse, and as for her, she's the finest gold!

"I too know it wasn't a louse," he answered, looking strangely at her.