loselry

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

losel +‎ -ry

Noun[edit]

loselry (uncountable)

  1. 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