"lidderon" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English lidrone",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English lidrone, from lidder, lither (“bad, wicked, false”), from Old English lȳþre (“bad, wicked, base, mean, corrupt, wretched”), from Proto-Germanic *lūþrijaz (“neglected, dissolute, useless, bad”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lew- (“slack, limp”). More at lither.",
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          "ref": "c. 14th–15th century, \"The York Realist\" (real name unknown), “Trial Before Herod”, in The York Mystery Plays, York; republished as “The Litsters: Christ Before Herod”, in Richard Beadle, Pamela M. King, editors, York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, lines 167–168",
          "text": "I leve we shall laugh and have liking / To see how this lidderon here he ledges our laws.",
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          "roman": "To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.",
          "text": "My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,\nFor frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;\nBut my learning is of another degree"
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        "One who is lazy, idle, or bad; rascal; scoundrel; a weakling."
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          "scoundrel",
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        "(rare, archaic, dialectal) One who is lazy, idle, or bad; rascal; scoundrel; a weakling."
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          "sense": "one who is lazy",
          "word": "goldbricker"
        },
        {
          "word": "slacker"
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          "word": "idler"
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          "word": "rapscallion"
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          "word": "villain"
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          "alt": "weakling",
          "word": "losel"
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          "word": "nonce"
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          "text": "I leve we shall laugh and have liking / To see how this lidderon here he ledges our laws.",
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          "roman": "To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.",
          "text": "My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,\nFor frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;\nBut my learning is of another degree"
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      "word": "goldbricker"
    },
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      "word": "idler"
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