"lorel" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Middle English lorel",
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        "2": "lose",
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      "expansion": "lose + -le",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English lorel, losel, equivalent to lose + -le.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lorels",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1810, Alexander Chalmers, The works of the English poets",
          "text": "But lurco, I apprehend, signifies only a glutton, which falls very short of our idea of a lorel; and besides I do not believe that the word was ever sufficiently common in Latin to give rise to a derivative in English.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Stephen Jay Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations",
          "text": "I refer to the sinister glossaries appended to sixteenth-century accounts of criminals and vagabonds. \"Here I set before the good reader the lewd, lousy language of these loitering lusks and lazy lorels,\" announces Thomas Harman as he introduces [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Kent Cartwright, A Companion to Tudor Literature",
          "text": "Just as a simian – be it a monkey or a marmoset, an ape or cercopithecus – may play the scholar or abuse the book, so the lorel can only look upon the Bible or play-act as lord.",
          "type": "quotation"
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      "glosses": [
        "A good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel."
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          "good-for-nothing",
          "good-for-nothing"
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          "fellow",
          "fellow"
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          "vagabond",
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        [
          "losel",
          "losel"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lorrel"
        }
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  "word": "lorel"
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        "2": "enm",
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      },
      "expansion": "Middle English lorel",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "lose",
        "3": "le"
      },
      "expansion": "lose + -le",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English lorel, losel, equivalent to lose + -le.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lorels",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1810, Alexander Chalmers, The works of the English poets",
          "text": "But lurco, I apprehend, signifies only a glutton, which falls very short of our idea of a lorel; and besides I do not believe that the word was ever sufficiently common in Latin to give rise to a derivative in English.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Stephen Jay Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations",
          "text": "I refer to the sinister glossaries appended to sixteenth-century accounts of criminals and vagabonds. \"Here I set before the good reader the lewd, lousy language of these loitering lusks and lazy lorels,\" announces Thomas Harman as he introduces [...]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Kent Cartwright, A Companion to Tudor Literature",
          "text": "Just as a simian – be it a monkey or a marmoset, an ape or cercopithecus – may play the scholar or abuse the book, so the lorel can only look upon the Bible or play-act as lord.",
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        "A good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel."
      ],
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          "fellow",
          "fellow"
        ],
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          "vagabond",
          "vagabond"
        ],
        [
          "losel",
          "losel"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "lorrel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lorel"
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