See Also: waster(dictionary)
waster(dictionary)

waster (iou)



waster noun. LME.
[Anglo-Norman wastere, wastour, from waster WASTE verb (see -ER2), coalesced with later formation on WASTE verb + -ER1.]
A person who lives in idleness and extravagance; a person who wastes resources, an extravagant spender, a squanderer, a spendthrift. Now also (colloq.), a worthless person, an idler (cf. WASTREL noun 3). LME.
b. A person who wastefully expends or consumes something specified. Foll. by of. LME.
A person who lays waste, despoils, or plunders a place etc.; a ravager, a plunderer. LME.
An animal that is wasting away or that will not fatten. Now chiefly dial. LME.
A thing rejected as waste or useless; an article of faulty or inferior manufacture; an animal, bird, etc. not considered good enough to be kept for breeding. Cf. WASTREL noun 2. E18.
A thing which causes or allows waste or loss of material; esp. (dial.) a piece of matter in the wick which causes a candle to gutter and burn too fast. L18.