leavings
English
Etymology
Participial form of "leave".
Noun
leavings pl (plural only)
- A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.
- The leavings were thrown to the dogs.
- A worthless surfeit of material, such as leftovers from a meal, or scrap lumber.
- The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful.
Translations
that which is left
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Anagrams
- sleaving, svengali