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losel

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Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
7
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈləʊzəl/ (UK)
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/ˈləʊzəl/ (UK) · /ˈloʊzəl/ (US)

Definition of losel

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic)A worthless or despicable person, scoundrel.
    “Dowtles such losels Make the churche to be In smale auctoryte; […]”
    “The whiles a losell wandring by the way, / One that to bountie neuer cast his mind, / Ne thought of honour euer did assay […].”
    “And, losel, thou art worthy to be hang'd.”
    “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 […]”
    “Not since I backed a horse have I been pressed so hard; peril of life, jeopardy of land and livelihood, and to sum up, all these losels in the wood to hunt me down.”
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noun

  1. (archaic)A worthless or despicable person, scoundrel.
    “Dowtles such losels Make the churche to be In smale auctoryte; […]”
    “The whiles a losell wandring by the way, / One that to bountie neuer cast his mind, / Ne thought of honour euer did assay […].”
    “And, losel, thou art worthy to be hang'd.”
    “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 […]”
    “Not since I backed a horse have I been pressed so hard; peril of life, jeopardy of land and livelihood, and to sum up, all these losels in the wood to hunt me down.”

adj

  1. Worthless; wasteful.

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Etymology

From Middle English losel (also lorel), from *losen, loren, past participle of lesen (“to lose”), equivalent to lose + -le.

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