Louse

Noun

 * 1) A small parasitic wingless insect of the order Phthiraptera.
 * 2)  A contemptible person; one who has recently taken an action considered deceitful or indirectly harmful.

Synonyms

 * cootie
 * maggot, worm

Derived terms

 * body louse
 * booklouse
 * crab louse
 * head louse
 * louser
 * lousy
 * pubic louse
 * sea louse
 * three skips of a louse

Verb

 * 1) To remove lice from the body of a person or animal; to delouse.

Synonyms

 * delouse

Thesaurus
SOB, bastard, bugger, cat flea, chigoe, cockroach, crab, creep, cur, dog, dog flea, fart, flea, grayback, heel, hood, hooligan, jerk, jigger, meanie, mite, mother, nit, parasite, pill, rat, red bug, roach, sand flea, shit, shithead, shitheel, skunk, snake, stinkard, stinker, toad, turd, vermin, weevil, wretch

Etymology
From lows:, from  lus:, from  (cf. West Frisian lûs:, Dutch luis:, German Laus:), from  (cf. Welsh llau: ‘lice’, Tocharian luwa:, Russian вошь:, Persian undefined:, Sanskrit undefined:).

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Amuzgo: kítzkò
 * Arabic: قملة, قمل
 * Egyptian: (ʔamla)
 * Armenian: ոջիլ
 * Aymara: lapʼa
 * Azeri: bit
 * Basque: zorri
 * Belarusian: вош
 * Bosnian:, , vaška
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: poll
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 虱子
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Dyirbal: bayi marbu (Guwal); bayi dimaniny (Jalnguy)
 * Esperanto: pediko
 * Faroese:
 * Fijian: kutu
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: მკბენარი, ტილი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: ʻuku
 * Hebrew: כינה
 * Hindi: जूँ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ilocano: kuto
 * Indonesian:
 * Acehnese:
 * Buginese:
 * Javanese: tuma
 * Madurese:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 虱, シラミ, 寄生虫
 * Kannada: ಹೇನು
 * Kazakh: бит


 * Khmer: ចៃ
 * Korean: 이
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:
 * Sorani:
 * Zazaki:
 * Kyrgyz: бит
 * Lakota: hitka la
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: uts
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Maori:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Ojibwe: ikwa, ikwag
 * Persian: شپش
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, plural: , вошка
 * Scottish Gaelic: mial
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ваш, уш
 * Roman: vaš, uš
 * Slovak: voš, plural: vši
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: chawa sg/pl (noun 9/10)
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kuto
 * Taos: phìayána
 * Telugu: పేను
 * Thai: เหา, โลน
 * Tibetan:
 * Tok Pisin: laus
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: bit
 * Ukrainian: воша
 * Urdu: جوں
 * Uyghur: پىت
 * Vietnamese:
 * Warlpiri: yaka
 * !Xóõ: ,


 * Albanian: qelbanik
 * Arabic: سَافِلٌ اِبْنُ كَلْب (sáafil íbnu kalb)
 * Bulgarian: гад (gad)
 * Dutch: (arme) luis
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German: Dreckskerl
 * Greek: κοπρόσκυλον (kopróskylon), ασυνείδητος (asyneíðitos)
 * Macedonian:, вошкар,
 * Polish: ,


 * Portuguese: piolho, sem-vergonha , canalha
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: гнида (gnída), гад (gad) , гадская кровь (gádskaja krov')
 * Slovak: všivák, všivavec
 * Slovene: ušivec, gnida
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: పనికిమాలిన వ్యక్తి (panikimaalina vyakti)
 * Thai: คนเส็งเคร็ง (khohn séng khreng)
 * Turkish: aşağılık kimse

Verb

 * Arabic: قملة

Anagrams

 * loues, oules, ousel, Seoul, soule