Meaning of lorel | Babel Free

Definitions

A good-for-nothing: a vagabond, waster or losel.

Examples

“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.”

“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 [...]”

“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.”

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