Losel vs Dosel - What's the difference?
losel | dosel |
(archaic) A worthless or despicable person.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
* 1843 , '', book 4, chapter III, ''The One Institution
* 1954 , , Toads :
* 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.’
As nouns the difference between losel and dosel
is that losel is (archaic) a worthless or despicable person while dosel is (a hanging or canopy).As an adjective losel
is worthless; wasteful.losel
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- The whiles a losell wandring by the way, / One that to bountie neuer cast his mind, / Ne thought of honour euer did assay […].
- 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 […]
- Lots of folk live on their wits: / Lecturers,lispers, / Losels , loblolly-men, louts-- / They don't end up as paupers; […]