waster

[ wey-ster ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that wastes time, money, etc.

  2. a piece of ceramic ware warped, cracked, or melted during firing.

  1. a spendthrift or wastrel.

  2. a destroyer: The Vandals were wasters of cities.

  3. Chiefly British. wastrel (def. 2).

Origin of waster

1
1300–50; Middle English <Anglo-French wastere, wastour (see -or2); later understood as waste + -er1

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How to use waster in a sentence

  • Inside, he found the waster interestedly poking with his stick at a roundish object on the floor.

    Bunker Bean | Harry Leon Wilson

British Dictionary definitions for waster

waster

/ (ˈweɪstə) /


noun
  1. a person or thing that wastes

  2. a ne'er-do-well; wastrel

  1. an article spoiled in manufacture

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