leavings

English

Etymology

Participial form of "leave".

Noun

leavings pl (plural only)

1. A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.

   The leavings were thrown to the dogs.

   The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful.

Translations

that which is left

• Bulgarian: остатъци (bg) m pl (ostatǎci)
• Finnish: tähteet (fi) pl
• Irish: fuílleach m
• Old English: laf
• Plautdietsch: Äwabliefsel n

Anagrams

• Svengali, sleaving, svengali