waster

English

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈweɪstə/
  • Rhymes: -eɪstə(ɹ)
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Etymology 1

From Middle English wastere, waister, wastar, wastour, equivalent to waste +‎ -er. Compare Anglo-Norman wastur, Old French gastëor.

Noun

waster (plural wasters)

  1. Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:spendthrift
  2. (dialectal) An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to waste.
    Synonym: thief
  3. (obsolete) A destroyer or plunderer.
  4. An item that is spoiled during its manufacture.
    • 1895, Richard Smith-Casson, “Small Cast Steel Ingots”, in Transactions of the Iron and Steel Institute, volume 46, page 215:
      Unless the cast was very hot indeed, the steel would refuse to ascend, and a great many wasters were caused thereby.
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Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

waster (plural wasters)

  1. (obsolete, chiefly fencing) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 6:
      Or, as they that play at wasters exercise themselves by a few cudgels how to avoid an enemy's blows, let us arm ourselves against all such violent incursions which may invade our minds.
  2. (obsolete, Scotland) A leister; a spear for catching fish.

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Middle English

Noun

waster

  1. Alternative form of wastour

Old French

Verb

waster

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of gaster

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of waster (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive waster aveir wasté
gerund en wastant gerund of aveir + past participle
present participle wastant
past participle wasté
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses		 present wast wastes waste wastons wastez wastent
imperfect wasteie, wastoe, wasteve wasteies, wastoes, wasteves wasteit, wastot, wasteve wastiiens, wastiens wastiiez, wastiez wasteient, wastoent, wastevent
preterite wastai wastas wasta wastames wastastes wasterent
future wasterai wasteras wastera wasterons wastereiz, wasterez wasteront
conditional wastereie wastereies wastereit wasteriiens, wasteriens wasteriiez, wasteriez wastereient
compound
tenses		 present perfect present tense of aveir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect tense of aveir + past participle
past anterior preterite tense of aveir + past participle
future perfect future tense of aveir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional tense of aveir + past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses		 present wast waz wast wastons wastez wastent
imperfect wastasse wastasses wastast wastissons, wastissiens wastisseiz, wastissez, wastissiez wastassent
compound
tenses		 past present subjunctive of aveir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of aveir + past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— waste — wastons wastez —

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