leavings

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leavings

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Participial form of "leave".

noun

plural, 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.

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@misc{leavings_2026,
  title = {leavings},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/leavings},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}