waster

[wey-ster]

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noun

a person or thing that wastes time, money, etc.

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

a spendthrift or wastrel.

a destroyer: The Vandals were wasters of cities.

Chiefly British. wastrel(def 2).

RELATED WORDS

wastrel, prodigal, profligate

Nearby words

Origin of waster

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

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Examples from the Web for waster

Waster Lunny would have talked of the flood, but I had not come here for that.
The Little Minister|J. M. Barrie
A class in spelling, big boys and little girls, toed a crack in front of the waster's desk.
Secret of the Woods|William J. Long
I boasted of it in my diary when I complacently styled myself a waster in Earth's factory.
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne|William J. Locke
The absolute perfectionist is the most tiresome of men, and a waster of time and of nerves.
The Armed Forces Officer|U. S. Department of Defense

I take the siller to feed the false wants of the waster, that should help the honorable man in his travail.
Merkland|Mrs. Oliphant

British Dictionary definitions for waster

waster

noun

a person or thing that wastes

a ne'er-do-well; wastrel

an article spoiled in manufacture

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