Lorel
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A good-for-nothing: a vagabond, waster or losel.
"But lurco, I apprehend, signifies only a glutton, which falls very short of our idea of a lorel; and besides I do not believe that the word was ever sufficiently common in Latin to give rise to a derivative in English."
Example
More examples"But lurco, I apprehend, signifies only a glutton, which falls very short of our idea of a lorel; and besides I do not believe that the word was ever sufficiently common in Latin to give rise to a derivative in English."
Etymology
From Middle English lorel, losel, equivalent to lose + -le.
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