a. [f. LUSK sb. + -Y.] Lazy, sluggish. (In quot. 1604 transf.)

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1604.  Drayton, Owl, 111. Rowse thee thou sluggish Bird … and leaue thy Luskye nest.

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1873.  W. S. Mayo, Never Again, xxxii. 417. That I … would … Learn Hope to scorn and duty deprecate; And idly float on lush and lusky flow Of sense.

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1886.  S. W. Linc. Gloss., Lusky, lazy, idle. ‘Gret lusky things, they’re too idle to work.’

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