lourdy

lourdy
 sluggish, from the French word LOURD.
 Dr. Heylin, in his Geography, will have LOURDON, for a sluggish lazy fellow, to be derived from Lord Dane; for that the Danes, when they were masters here, were distributed singly into private houses, and in each called Lord Dane, who lorded it there, and lived such a slothful idle life.

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England. . 1790.

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