loselry
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]loselry (uncountable)
- Low, rascally behaviour characteristic of a losel.
- 1522, John Skelton, Why Come Ye Nat to Courte?; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 295, lines 663–665:
- I dought lest by Sorsery
Or suche other loselry
As wychecraft / or charmyng