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Etymology
candle + waster
Noun
candlewaster (plural candlewasters)
- (obsolete, derogatory) One who consumes candles by staying up late reading and studying; a student.
c. 1598–1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 5, scene 1: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.
1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, act 3, scene 2:Heart, was there ever so prosperous an invention thus unluckily perverted and spoiled by a whoreson book-worm, a candle-waster?
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