Obs. [f. LUSK v.] An idle or lazy fellow; a sluggard.
c. 1420. Lydg., Assembly of Gods, 714. Vnthryftys, & vnlustes came also to that game, With luskes, & loselles that myght nat thryue for shame.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, VII. v. What arte thou but a luske and a torner of broches and a ladyl wessher.
c. 1515. Cocke Lorell’s B., 11. Luskes, slouens, and kechen knaues.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXI. xliv. 418. Well may they bee cowards, and play the idle luskes.
1647. Trapp, Comm. Rev. ii. 26. That keepeth himself unspotted of the world, that foul lusk that lieth in that wicked one.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, V. 236. Idle Lusks.
Comb. 1611. Cotgr., Estourdi, sottish, blockish … luske-like.
