lousy

lousy
adjective
1) (infested) verlaust
2) (coll.) (disgusting) ekelhaft; widerlich; (very poor) lausig (ugs.); mies (ugs.)

feel lousy — sich mies (ugs.) od. miserabel fühlen

* * *
adjective
1) (having lice.) verlaust
2) (really terrible: I'm a lousy cook.) miserabel
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lousy
[ˈlaʊzi]
adj
1. (fam: bad) lausig fam, [hunds]miserabel sl, beschissen derb
\lousy weather Hundewetter nt fam
2. (meagre) lausig fam, mick[e]rig fam, popelig fam
a \lousy £10! lausige 10 Pfund!
3. pred (ill)
to feel \lousy sich akk hundeelend [o mies] fühlen fam
4. (infested with lice) verlaust
5. (fam: teeming)
▪ to be \lousy with sth etw bis zum Abwinken haben sl
this office is \lousy with idiots in diesem Büro wimmelt es nur so von Idioten fam
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['laʊzɪ]
adj
1) verlaust

he is lousy with money (inf) — er ist stinkreich (inf)

this place is lousy with cops (inf) — hier wimmelt es nur so von Polizei (inf)

2) (inf: very bad) mies (inf); trick etc fies (inf)

I'm lousy at arithmetic — in Mathe bin ich mies or miserabel (inf)

he is lousy at (playing) golf or a lousy golfer — er spielt miserabel Golf (inf)

you've done a lousy job — du hast saumäßig gearbeitet (sl)

to have lousy luck — saumäßiges Pech haben (inf)

to feel lousy — sich mies fühlen (inf)

I feel lousy about it — mir ist gar nicht wohl bei dem Gedanken daran

3) (inf: meagre) offer lausig (inf), mies (inf)

a lousy £3 — popelige or lausige drei Pfund (inf)

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lousy adj (adv lousily)
1. verlaust, voller Läuse
2. sl
a) fies, hundsgemein (beide umg):
that was a lousy thing to do das war ganz schön fies
b) lausig, mies (beide umg) (Film etc):
feel lousy
3. be lousy with sl
a) wimmeln von:
the streets were lousy with people auf den Straßen wimmelte es von Menschen
b) strotzen vor (dat) oder von:
he’s lousy with money umg er stinkt vor Geld
* * *
adjective
1) (infested) verlaust
2) (coll.) (disgusting) ekelhaft; widerlich; (very poor) lausig (ugs.); mies (ugs.)

feel lousy — sich mies (ugs.) od. miserabel fühlen

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adj.
lausig adj.
mies adj.
widerlich adj.

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