Louse
noun
A small insect that lives on the skin or fur of people or animals.
She found a louse in her child's hair.
Often appears as...
- head louse
- body louse
noun
An unpleasant or despicable person.
He's a nasty little louse who spreads rumors around the office.
Often appears as...
- little louse
- nasty louse
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
A small insect that lives on the skin or fur of people or animals.
She found a louse in her child's hair.
Often appears as...
- head louse
- body louse
noun
An unpleasant or despicable person.
He's a nasty little louse who spreads rumors around the office.
Often appears as...
- little louse
- nasty louse
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Plural Form
The plural of 'louse' is 'lice.' Remember, just changing 's' to 'z' doesn't make it plural.
Lice are common in school environments.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Context
'Louse' is often used when talking about personal hygiene issues related to hair or skin.
A louse can cause a lot of itching.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Species
'Louse' applies to several species, but 'head louse' is most common in conversations about children.
The school sent a note about a head louse outbreak.
Pro Tip 1/3Plural Form
The plural of 'louse' is 'lice.' Remember, just changing 's' to 'z' doesn't make it plural.
Lice are common in school environments.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Context
'Louse' is often used when talking about personal hygiene issues related to hair or skin.
A louse can cause a lot of itching.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Species
'Louse' applies to several species, but 'head louse' is most common in conversations about children.
The school sent a note about a head louse outbreak.
Pro Tip 1/3Plural Form
The plural of 'louse' is 'lice.' Remember, just changing 's' to 'z' doesn't make it plural.
Lice are common in school environments.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Context
'Louse' is often used when talking about personal hygiene issues related to hair or skin.
A louse can cause a lot of itching.
Pro Tip 3/3Specific Species
'Louse' applies to several species, but 'head louse' is most common in conversations about children.
The school sent a note about a head louse outbreak.
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Video examples
Safari Live - Day 202 PIPE...
trunks to scoop up dust and throw it over their bodies however the rest of them the rest of the mammals kind of have to roll around like this and what that will do is that helps suffocate any of little parasites that are living on their body so particularly lice will end up being suffocated maybe the small tick
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The Atlantic slave...
which they also bought with slaves. The slave trade had become an arms race, altering societies and economies across the continent. As for the slaves themselves, they faced unimaginable brutality. After being marched to slave forts on the coast, shaved to prevent lice, and branded,
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An Accidental Case of...
as a pigment is rare and since good pigments are so rare in nature they often come from unexpected places so there are lots of unusual ways of making pigments and i mean one of them is to get insects and crush them so you you could get the kermis lice or you could get
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The otherworldly...
so being small gives animals a low energy requirement and an adaptive advantage. And yet, the sea is also the land of giants. Here, gargantuan squids can reach 18 meters long. Isopods scuttle around the sea floor like enormous wood lice.
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Thulasiraj Ravilla: How...
I think first it's important for us to recognize what it is to be blind. Everywhere I went looking for work, they said no, what use do we have for a blind woman? I couldn't thread a needle or see the lice in my hair.
Video examples
Inside the Amazon: A...
And she's... you can see in this picture she's got so many head lice so she shaved all her head off. So, you know, just in a few months since I took this picture her entire life and world has completely changed.
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Secret Life of Head Lice...
mullets price edible tastes as usual mmm oh oh Nitz what I'm afraid sir you have headlights on I'm not gonna be able to deal with you today you're joking how embarrassing but what a head lice really
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Our treatment of HIV has...
and more offensive. I was asked to move my toothbrush from the bathroom, I was asked to not share towels, and I was even asked to wash my clothes on a hotter setting. This wasn't head lice, y'all.
Video examples
180° Kathmandu, City of...
embodiment of Buddhist wisdom known as the Monkey Temple the complex draws more than worshipers and tourists these rhesus macaques are regarded as sacred descendents of the lice that plagued the
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Best Moments of 2018 PIPE...
several times a day to keep these lice alive I need to feed them on me these little pots should keep them safe while allowing them to bite me thank you very
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 202 PIPE...
trunks to scoop up dust and throw it over their bodies however the rest of them the rest of the mammals kind of have to roll around like this and what that will do is that helps suffocate any of little parasites that are living on their body so particularly lice will end up being suffocated maybe the small tick
Video examples
The Atlantic slave...
which they also bought with slaves. The slave trade had become an arms race, altering societies and economies across the continent. As for the slaves themselves, they faced unimaginable brutality. After being marched to slave forts on the coast, shaved to prevent lice, and branded,
Video examples
An Accidental Case of...
as a pigment is rare and since good pigments are so rare in nature they often come from unexpected places so there are lots of unusual ways of making pigments and i mean one of them is to get insects and crush them so you you could get the kermis lice or you could get
Video examples
The otherworldly...
so being small gives animals a low energy requirement and an adaptive advantage. And yet, the sea is also the land of giants. Here, gargantuan squids can reach 18 meters long. Isopods scuttle around the sea floor like enormous wood lice.
Video examples
Thulasiraj Ravilla: How...
I think first it's important for us to recognize what it is to be blind. Everywhere I went looking for work, they said no, what use do we have for a blind woman? I couldn't thread a needle or see the lice in my hair.
Video examples
Inside the Amazon: A...
And she's... you can see in this picture she's got so many head lice so she shaved all her head off. So, you know, just in a few months since I took this picture her entire life and world has completely changed.
Video examples
Secret Life of Head Lice...
mullets price edible tastes as usual mmm oh oh Nitz what I'm afraid sir you have headlights on I'm not gonna be able to deal with you today you're joking how embarrassing but what a head lice really
Video examples
Our treatment of HIV has...
and more offensive. I was asked to move my toothbrush from the bathroom, I was asked to not share towels, and I was even asked to wash my clothes on a hotter setting. This wasn't head lice, y'all.
Video examples
180° Kathmandu, City of...
embodiment of Buddhist wisdom known as the Monkey Temple the complex draws more than worshipers and tourists these rhesus macaques are regarded as sacred descendents of the lice that plagued the
Video examples
Best Moments of 2018 PIPE...
several times a day to keep these lice alive I need to feed them on me these little pots should keep them safe while allowing them to bite me thank you very
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Quote examples
Tom Baker
Actor
I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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Viv Albertine
British Musician
I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with some idiot man, frankly. They drag you down - I'm talking about my generation of men.
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Eskinder Nega
Ethiopian Journalist
I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.
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Desi Arnaz
American Actor
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
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Murray Kempton
American Journalist
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
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Yvonne De Carlo
Canadian Actress
Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
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Theophile Gautier
French Poet
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
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Leonard Maltin
American Critic
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
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Rain Dove
American Model
I had lice in third grade, and my mom shaved all my hair off.
Quote examples
Tom Baker
Actor
I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn't exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
Quote examples
Viv Albertine
British Musician
I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with some idiot man, frankly. They drag you down - I'm talking about my generation of men.
Quote examples
Eskinder Nega
Ethiopian Journalist
I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.
Quote examples
Desi Arnaz
American Actor
A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.
Quote examples
Murray Kempton
American Journalist
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
Quote examples
Yvonne De Carlo
Canadian Actress
Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
Quote examples
Theophile Gautier
French Poet
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
Quote examples
Leonard Maltin
American Critic
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
Quote examples
Rain Dove
American Model
I had lice in third grade, and my mom shaved all my hair off.
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