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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Loordnoun
Etymology: loerd, Dutch; from lourdant, French; lurdan, Erse; a heavy, stupid, or witless fellow. D. Trevoux derives lourdant from lorde or lourde, a village in Gascoigny, the inhabitants of which were formerly noted robbers, say they. But dexterity in robbing implies some degree of subtility, from which the Gascoigns are so far removed, that, at this day, they are aukward and heavy to a proverb. The Erse imports some degree of knavery, but then it is used in a ludicrous sense, as in English, you pretty rogue; though in general it denotes reproachful heaviness, or stupid laziness. Edmund Spenser’s Scholiast says, loord was wont, among the old Britons, to signify a lord; and therefore the Danes, that usurped their tyranny here in Britain, were called, for more dread than dignity, lurdans, i.e. lord Danes, whose insolence and pride was so outrageous in this realm, that if it fortuned a Briton to be going over a bridge, and saw the Dane set foot upon the same, he must return back till the Dane was clean over, else he must abide no less than present death: but being afterward expelled, the name of lurdane became so odious unto the people whom they had long oppressed, that, even at this day, they use for more reproach to call the quartan ague the fever lurdane. So far the Scholiast, but erroneously. From Edmund Spenser ’s own words, it signifies something of stupid dulness rather than magisterial arrogance. Macbean.
Siker, thou’s but a lazy loord,
And rekes much of thy swinke,
That with fond terms and witless words
To bleer mine eyes do’st think. Edmund Spenser, Pastorals.
Webster Dictionary
Loordnoun
a dull, stupid fellow; a drone
Etymology: [F. lourd heavy, dull.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Loord
lōōrd, n. (Spens.) a lout. [Fr. lourd, heavy.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of loord in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of loord in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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