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louse

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But left alone, it hatches into a louse.

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Quick take

wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of louse gathered in one view.

noun

wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

noun

a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

noun

any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for louse.

noun

wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

noun

a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

See also: worm, insect

noun

any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

noun

wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

Example sentences

1

But left alone, it hatches into a louse.

2

Freud replied: A louse on my head sees no further than I do.

3

But if a couple of people in a community each have a louse or two, they breed.

4

Yeah, but it's kind of cheating because it goes through "louse" which is the singular of lice.

5

You can probably survive a louse or two quite easily.

6

Europeans pronounce it the right way "Nick-louse Veert", but Americans mangle it into "Nickel's Worth.

7

A lot of American politics seems to be about convincing you to stay home because your candidate is a louse.

8

I've never seen a bedbug, but the first is an ant, the second probably some type of wasp, the third a louse, don't know the fourth, and the fifth is a tick.

9

And we joked how the operators of twitter had like a couple servers and some louse PHP scripts to glue it all together, it was just so laughable from the outset.

10

We might easily hypothesize an illness spread by one kind of louse, whereby the head lice versus the body lice is the deciding factor to produce the selective brain outcome in the same time span.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use louse in a sentence?

But left alone, it hatches into a louse.

What does louse mean?

wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

What part of speech is louse?

louse is commonly used as noun.