a. arch. Also 5–6 lothy. [f. LOATH sb. + -Y.] = LOATHSOME.
1481. Caxton, Reynard (Arb.), 16. Neuer man sawe fowller ne lothyer beest.
a. 1529. Skelton, Agst. Garnesche, 29, Wks. (Dyce), I. 117. Your wynde schakyn shankkes, your longe lothy legges.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xi. (1617), 170. Things which seem most filthy and lothy.
1840. Browning, Sordello, IV. 23. Docks, quitchgrass, loathy mallows no man plants.
1855. Kingsley, Westw. Ho! xx. (1881), II. 127. The loathy floor of liquid mud lay bare beneath the mangrove forest.
