wastour
English
Noun
wastour (plural wastours)
- Alternative form of wastor
- 1829, Robert Southey, “Colloquy XIII. The River Greta.—Trade.—Population.—Colonies.”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], OCLC 460415626, page 297:
- For though knights are not more needed now to protect the husbandmen against wastours and wicked men, […].
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Anagrams
- outwars
Middle English
Alternative forms
- waister, waster, wastere, wastor, wastoure, wastur, wasture, wayster
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman wastour (continental Old French gasteor); equivalent to wast (“desolate”) + -our.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wasˈtuːr/, /ˈwastur/, /ˈwastər/, /waːs-/
Noun
wastour (plural wastours)
- A devastator or raider; one who lays waste.
- A squanderer; one who wastes money or resources.
Descendants
- English: waster; wastor, wastour
- Scots: waster
References
- “wā̆stǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.