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Definition of 'losel'English
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Noun
( en-noun)
(archaic) A worthless or despicable person.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
- The whiles a losell wandring by the way, / One that to bountie neuer cast his mind, / Ne thought of honour euer did assay […].
* 1843 , '', book 4, chapter III, ''The One Institution
- These thousand straight-standing firm-set individuals, who shoulder arms, who march, wheel, advance, retreat; and are, for your behoof, a magazine charged with fiery death, in the most perfect condition of potential activity: few months ago, till the persuasive sergeant came, what were they? Multiform ragged losels , runaway apprentices, starved weavers, thievish valets […]
* 1954 , , Toads :
- Lots of folk live on their wits: / Lecturers,lispers, / Losels , loblolly-men, louts-- / They don't end up as paupers; […]
* 1964 , Anthony Burgess, The Eve of St Venus :
*:‘Come on, you losel ,’ he said to Spatchcock, ‘you privy calligrapher, you. You can carry his bottles. I’ll carry him.’
Derived terms
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Adjective
( en-adj)
Worthless; wasteful.
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