losel
/ˈləʊz(ə)l
/noun archaic or dialect
A worthless person.We hear him through the night ranting and raving in his sleep: ‘Fie, losels and liars, knaves everyone....
- While geomancing losels are represented in all walks of life, they seem to be most prevalent among politicians and their corporate benefactors.
- Not since I backed a horse have I been pressed so hard; peril of life, jeopardy of land and livelihood, and to sum up, all these losels in the wood to hunt me down.
Origin
Late Middle English: apparently from los-, stem of obsolete lese 'lose', + -el.
- the Craft
- the cream of the crop
- the Creation
- the Creator
- the Creed
- the Crescent
- the Cross
- the Crown
- the Crucifixion
- the Curragh
- the cut of someone's jib
- the damage is done
- the dark ages
- the darkest hour is just before the dawn
- the dead heart (also the dead centre)
- the dead of night
- the dead of winter
- the dead ring of
- the deal
- the debit side
- the deep end
- the Deity
- the Depression
- the deuce to pay
- the Devil