Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
losel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A good for nothing fellow; a vagabond.
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- noun A
good-for-nothing fellow ; avagabond ;losel .
Etymologies
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From Middle English lorel, losel, equivalent to lose + -le.
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Examples
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Elk are in much better order in the point near the praries than they are in the woody country arround us or up the Netul. in the praries they feed on grass and rushes, considerable quantities of which are yet green and succule [n] t. in the woody country their food is huckle berry bushes, fern, and an evergreen shrub which resembles the lorel in some measure; the
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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The general organisation was not defective; nor was every monk a "lorel, a loller, and a ` spille-tyme. '
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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See losel.
December 14, 2022