leavings

English

Noun

leavings (uncountable)

1. A worthless and incidental residuum, as scraps from a meal or shavings or sawdust from wood.

   The leavings were thrown to the dogs.

2. A worthless surfeit of material, as leftovers from a meal or scrap lumber.

   The poor survive on the leavings of the rich and wasteful.

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