lou ‧ sy /ˈlaʊzi/ BrE AmE adjective ( comparative lousier , superlative lousiest )
1 . especially spoken of very bad quality SYN awful , terrible :
What lousy weather!
The food was lousy.
a lousy film
2 . spoken feel lousy if you feel lousy, you feel ill
3 . spoken not very good at doing something SYN hopeless , terrible
lousy at/with
I’m lousy at tennis.
Brenda’s lousy with kids.
a lousy teacher
4 . spoken small, useless, or unimportant:
He left me a lousy fifty cent tip.
5 . be lousy with something American English old-fashioned
a) a place that is lousy with people of a particular kind is too full of them:
The town was lousy with tourists.
b) someone who is lousy with money has a lot more of it than they need