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lausig

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German

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Etymology

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Laus (louse) +‎ -ig (-y), thus "evocative of lice" > "very bad". Cognate with English lousy.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlaʊ̯zɪç/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈlaʊ̯zɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
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  • Hyphenation: lau‧sig

Adjective

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lausig (strong nominative masculine singular lausiger, comparative lausiger, superlative am lausigsten)

  1. lousy (remarkably bad)
    • 1963 [1851 December 3], Friedrich Engels, “Engels an Marx in London”, in Marx-Engels-Werke, volume 27, page 381; English translation based on “Engels to Marx in London”, in Peter & Betty Ross, transl., Marx/Engels Collected Works, 1982, page 505:
      [] und es scheint wirklich, als ob der alte Hegel in seinem Grabe die Geschichte als Weltgeist leitete und mit der größten Gewissenhaftigkeit alles sich zwei mal abspinnen ließe, einmal als große Tragödie, und das zweite Mal als lausige Farce, []
      [] and it really seems as though old Hegel, in the guise of the World Spirit, were directing history from the grave and, with the greatest conscientiousness, causing everything to be re-enacted twice over, once as grand tragedy and the second time as lousy farce, []

Declension

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • lausig” in Duden online
  • lausig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache