† ˈlodder, a. Obs.
[Connected with OE. loddere beggar, poor wretch. Cf. OHG. lotar adj., vain, idle (MHG. lotar adj., loose, unsteady, loter, lotter n., mountebank, rogue, mod.G. dial. lotter, loose, exhausted; also in mod.G. lotterbube blackguard, and in other compounds: see Grimm). The OTeut. stem *lod- is related by ablaut to *leuþ- in lither a.]
Wretched.
| a 1400 Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. (E.E.T.S.) 624/441 But a Barn be twyȝes born, Whon domus-day schal blowen his bemus, He may elles liggen loddere for-lorn. |
Hence † ˈlodderly adv., wretchedly, basely.
| c 1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. 22 To helpe thys heyth man that..þrogh hys owne men lodderly was of lond y-dryue. |