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Lusk vs Lask - What's the difference?

lusk | lask |

As nouns the difference between lusk and lask

is that lusk is a lazy or slothful person while lask is diarrhoea (now only of animals).

As an adjective lusk

is lazy or slothful.

As a verb lusk

is to be idle or unemployed.

lusk

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • lazy or slothful
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a lazy or slothful person
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To be idle or unemployed.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    lask

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Diarrhoea (now only of animals).
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:
  • *:A grave and learned minister, and an ordinary preacher at Alkmaar in Holland, was (one day as he walked in the fields for his recreation) suddenly taken with a lask or looseness, and thereupon compelled to retire to the next ditch […].
  • * 1653 , Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician , Folio Society 2007, p. 150:
  • The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the colic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels […].