leavings
leavings noun: a worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.
Noun
leavings pl (plural only)
- A worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.
- The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful.
- [T]he outdoor dogs […] were permitted to raven unchecked upon chicken bones, fat slices of ham, and luscious leavings of cream when the packing-up time came.1894, E[dith Anna] Œ[none] Somerville, Martin Ross [pseudonym; Violet Florence Martin], chapter XII, in The Real Charlotte […], volume I, London: Ward and Downey […], →OCLC, page 168
leavings meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
leavings in Tamil
- எச்சம், மிச்சம்
leavings in Bengali
- leavings
- উচ্ছিষ্ট ucchiśṭo
leavings in Malayalam
- remainder, residue, remains
- അവശേഷം, ശേഷിപ്പുകൾ, ശേഷിപ്പ്, പിട്ട്, അവശിഷ്ടം, ഉച്ഛേഷം
leavings in Kannada
- ಅವಶೇಷ, ಉಚ್ಚಿಷ್ಟ
Origin of leavings
Participial form of "leave".
Questions about leavings
- What does leavings mean?
- Leavings means a worthless and incidental residuum, such as scraps from a meal, or shavings or sawdust from wood.
- What is leavings in Tamil?
- Leavings in Tamil is எச்சம், மிச்சம். See Leavings meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is leavings?
- Leavings is a noun.
Words near leavings in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: leavings (page history and authors); leavings (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); উচ্ছিষ্ট (Bengali) (page history and authors); leavings (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); leavings (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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