Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A muser or dreamer; a vagabond.
- noun A foolish fellow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A dreamer; an absent-minded person.
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- noun obsolete A
dreamer ; anabsent-minded person.
Etymologies
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French, from muser to loiter, trifle. See muse (intransitive verb).
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Examples
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In the first category were babelard or babillard for ` babbler '; lubbard for ` big, stupid lout' (from which came landlubber); caynard ` lazy dog '(ultimately from the Italian cagna ` bitch'); losard ` rake 'or ` profligate' (from Old English losel ` one who is lost to perdition '); and the mellifluous but contumelious musard, whose sin was day-dreaming.
mialuthien commented on the word musard
musard – obs. a dreamer; an absent-minded person
July 27, 2008