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wastoid

noun
/ˈweɪsˌtɔɪd/

Etymology

From waste + -oid. Compare waster (“idler”), wasted (“in a drugged state”).

  1. derived from vastō
  2. derived from *wāsto-✻ — “empty, wasted”
  3. derived from *wōstijan✻ — “to waste”
  4. derived from waster — “to waste, devastate”
  5. inherited from wasten
  6. suffixed as wastoid — “waste + oid”

Definitions

  1. A person with a drug or alcohol addiction.

    • Andrew Clark: Yo, wastoid. You're not gonna blaze up in here.

  2. A person regarded with contempt

    A person regarded with contempt; a loser.

    • "They look like the stupid kind of wastoids who get gobbled up in the first ten minutes of a horror movie," I said.

  3. An absent-minded or vacuous person.

    • Oh God. What if he was talking to me and I didn't say anything and was just sitting here staring into space like a complete wastoid? Eva blinked. Did I just use the word wastoid?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wastoid. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA