WASTREL


Meaning of WASTREL in English

/ ˈweɪstrəl; NAmE / noun

( literary ) a lazy person who spends their time and/or money in a careless and stupid way

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WORD ORIGIN

late 16th cent. (denoting a strip of waste land): from the verb waste + -rel .

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