name origins/meanings--lucius malfoy

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Lucius Malfoy
        A luxurious and tempting--but ultimately false, dangerous, or 
back-stabbing--path or allegiance.
        The insidious, misleading path.

Lucius--(adj) pleasing, seductive, luxurious; obscenely so.
Mal--(prefix) bad, evil.
Foy--(n) allegiance, goodwill, farewell gift. (from ancient root -- journey, 
road)

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        from dictionary.com:

lus.cious (adj) loo-shus
1. Sweet and pleasant to taste or smell (delicious): a luscious melon.
2. Having strong sensual or sexual appeal, seductive.
3. Richly appealing to the senses or mind: a luscious, vivid description.
4. (archaic) Excessively sweet, cloying, fulsome.
[From Middle English **lucius**, alteration of 'licious', perhaps short for 
'delicious']
        (American Heritage Dictionary)

Lus'cious (probably for lustious, from lusty, or perhaps a corruption of 
luxurious)
1. Sweet, delicious, very grateful to the taste, toothsome, excessively 
sweet or rich.
2. Cloying, fulsome: a tedious, luscious way of talking.
3. Gratifying a depraved sense, obscene.
        (Webster's Dictionary)

luscious
1. having strong sexual appeal  [syn: juicy, red-hot, voluptuous]
2. extremely pleasing to the sense of taste  [syn: delectable, delicious, 
fulsome, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy]
        (WordNet)

luscious
syn: delectable, distinctive, divine, exquisite, flamboyant, fulsome, lush, 
luxurious, mellow, opulent, ornate, palatial, piquant, rare, rich, 
succulent, sumptuous, toothsome, voluptuous, yummy
        (Roget's Thesaurus)



mal (prefix)
1. Bad, badly: maladminister the medicine.
2. Abnormal, abnormally: malformation.
[From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin 'male' (badly), and 
'malus' (bad)]
        (American Heritage Dictionary)

Mal-
A prefix denoting ill, evil or bad.  In some words it has the form 'male-': 
malediction, malevolent.
        (Webster's Dictionary)



foy
A farewell feast, drink, or gift, as at a wedding.
[From Dutch dialect 'fooi', from Middle Dutch **foye** (journey), from Old 
French 'voie', from Latin 'via' (road)]
        (American Heritage Dictionary)

Foy
1. Faith, allegiance, fealty.
2. Feast given by one about to leave.
[From foi, old spelling **foy** (faith)]
        (Webster's Dictionary)



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