Etymology

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Today it means: ugly; loathsome Full definition →

Middle English laithlie
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromlaithlie“ugly”
  2. English todaylaidly

From Middle English laithlie (“ugly”), equivalent to loath+-ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.