pricklouse
nounUK /ˈpɹɪklaʊs/
Etymology From prick + louse.
1
Archaic, Derogatory A tailor.
- When she was under Water, and could call him Pricklouse no longer with her Lips, she held up her Hands over her Head1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
2
Archaic, Derogatory A lousy person.
- that woman […] by no threats or stripes would leave to call her husband pricke-lowse [translating pouilleux], and being cast into a pond and duckt under water, lifted up her hands, and joyning her two thumbs-nailes in act to kill lice above her head, seemed to call him lousie still […]., II.32