wastrel

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly. countable,dated
    — And so with one thing and other the auld witch raised the fiends of jealousy in that innocent heart. She would cry out that Heriotside was an ill-doing wastrel, and had no business to come and flatter honest lassies.
  2. A neglected child. countable,obsolete
  3. Refuse; rubbish. obsolete,uncountable

词形变化

wastrels plural

词源

1847, waste + -rel (pejorative).
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