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Lozel vs Losel - What's the difference?

lozel | losel |

As nouns the difference between lozel and losel

is that lozel is while losel is (archaic) a worthless or despicable person.

As an adjective losel is

worthless; wasteful.

lozel

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • losel

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A worthless or despicable person.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
    • The whiles a losell wandring by the way, / One that to bountie neuer cast his mind, / Ne thought of honour euer did assay […].
  • * 1843 , '', book 4, chapter III, ''The One Institution
    • 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 […]
  • * 1954 , , Toads :
    • Lots of folk live on their wits: / Lecturers,lispers, / Losels , loblolly-men, louts-- / They don't end up as paupers; […]
  • * 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.’

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Worthless; wasteful.

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