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lore | lorel |

As an adjective lore

is their.

As a noun lorel is

a good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.

lore

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) lore, from (etyl) '', German ''Lehre . See also (l).

Noun

  • all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
    • the lore of the Ancient Egyptians
  • * Milton
    • His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore .
  • The backstory created around a fictional universe.
  • (obsolete) workmanship
    • (Spenser)
    Derived terms
    * birdlore * booklore * catlore * doglore * faxlore * fishlore * folklore * photocopylore * woodlore * wortlore * xeroxlore

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
  • (anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
    • Derived terms
    * lored

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (lose)
  • * Spenser
    • Neither of them she found where she them lore .

    Anagrams

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    lorel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.
  • *1810 , Alexander Chalmers, The works of the English poets :
    • 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.
  • *1988 , Stephen Jay Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations :
    • I refer to the sinister glossaries appended to sixteenth-century accounts of criminals and vagabonds. "Here I set before the good reader the lewd, lousy language of these loitering lusks and lazy lorels ," announces Thomas Harman as he introduces [...]
  • *2010 , Kent Cartwright, A Companion to Tudor Literature :
    • Just as a simian – be it a monkey or a marmoset, an ape or cercopithecus – may play the scholar or abuse the book, so the lorel can only look upon the Bible or play-act as lord.
    (Webster 1913)