Meanings
looser1
looser2
plural loosers
- One who looses, who sets loose or frees.
Loosers of topsails and courses, and men stationed at boom tricing-lines, […]
1884, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Aaron Ward, Text-book of Seamanship1 more example
Therefore we cannot but infer that they did not understand the promise of their Lord as uttered in a sense at variance with the established forms of language, as conveying the doctrine which the clerical binders and loosers of later ages teach.
1844, John Wesley, The Magazine of the Wesleyan Methodist Church
looser3
- misspellingMisspelling of loser.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Old Norselauss
- Middle Englishloos
- Englishloose
- Englishlooser
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Cite this entry
looser. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/looser
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