Candlewaster

Quick meaning: Candlewaster is a noun meaning (obsolete, derogatory) One who consumes candles by staying up late reading and studying; a student.

Meaning

(obsolete, derogatory) One who consumes candles by staying up late reading and studying; a student.

Example Sentences

Heart, was there ever so prosperous an invention thus unluckily perverted and spoiled by a whoreson book-worm, a candle-waster?

If such a one will smile and stroke his beard, / And, sorrow wag, cry 'hem!' when he should groan, / Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk / With candle-wasters—bring him yet to me, / And I of him will gather patience.

Word Forms

• candlewasters
• candle-waster

Synonyms for candlewaster

Depending on context, synonyms include scholar, student.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include candle-waster, thief, wonk, wastor, cupster, wordster.

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