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LITHER

Definition: LITHER

LITHER

Adjective

1. Bad; wicked; false; worthless; slothful.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "LITHER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references)

Note: Lither \Li"ther\, adjective. [from Anglo-Saxon expression bad, wicked.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: LITHER

Specialty definitions using "LITHER": Abbey-lubber. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LITHER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  lither vandross

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: LITHER

Derivations

Words ending with "LITHER": blither, slither. (additional references)

Words containing "LITHER": blithered, blithering, blithers, slithered, slithering, slithers, slithery. (additional references)


Misspellings

"LITHER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Clitherow, laither, lether, licher, Lihir, lite, lithed, lithes, Llethyr. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LITHER"

Words rhyming with "LITHER" (pronounced 'Li"ther'): Anther, ETHER, Grandfather, Mauther, Murther. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LITHER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-r-t"

-1 letter: ither, liter, lithe, litre, relit, their, thirl, tiler.

-2 letters: elhi, heil, heir, herl, hilt, hire, lehr, lier, lire, lite, riel, rile, rite, thir, tier, tile, tire, tirl.

-3 letters: eth, her, het, hie, hit, ire, lei, let, lie, lit, rei, ret, tel, the, tie, til.

-4 letters: eh, el, er, et, he, hi, it, li, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-l-r-t"
 

+1 letter: blither, lathier, lighter, luthier, philter, philtre, relight, slither, thirled.

 

+2 letters: aerolith, blighter, blithers, chlorite, clothier, earthily, eldritch, filthier, flichter, heartily, heliport, hotelier, lighters, litharge, luthiers, philters, philtred, philtres, plighter, regolith, relights, rhyolite, slighter, slithers, slithery, thirlage, thrilled, thriller, thurible, triethyl, whistler, whittler.

 

+3 letters: aeroliths, allethrin, blighters, blithered, blotchier, breathily, chlorites, clothiers, delighter, earthlier, earthlike, earthling, erstwhile, firelight, flichters, flightier, ghastlier, ghostlier, hairstyle, haltering, healthier, heliports, helotries, herbalist, heretical, heritable, hillcrest, horsetail, hoteliers, kilohertz, lathering, lengthier, lethargic, lightener, lightered, litharges, mirthless, overlight, philtered, plethoric, plighters, preflight, regoliths, relighted, rhodolite, rhyolites, shirtless, shrillest, sightlier, slithered, theriacal, thirlages, thistlier, thornlike, thrillers, thuribles, trailhead, trihedral, turophile, wealthier, whirliest, whistlers, whittlers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LITHER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 49 54 48 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "LITHER"


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