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Lozel vs Lorel - What's the difference?

lozel | lorel |

As nouns the difference between lozel and lorel

is that lozel is alternative form of losel while lorel is a good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.

lozel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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)