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do-nothing, n. and a.|ˈduːˌnʌθɪŋ|
A. n. One who does nothing; an idler.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 259/1 It is not for a do nothing that this office is ordeined. 1624Massinger Renegado iv. i, Such a goodman Do-nothing. 1855Faraday in Bence Jones Life (1870) II. 361, I cannot imagine you a do-nothing. 1887Spectator 15 Oct. 1378 A class of do-nothings who at some previous time had owned the land.
B. adj. That does nothing; characterized by doing nothing; idle, indolent.
1832W. Irving Alhambra II. 84 The invalids, old women, and other curious do-nothing folk. 1839Carlyle Chartism ix. 169 A do-nothing guidance; and it is a do-something World! 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. IV. liv. 99 He was..very fond of yachting: its dreamy, do-nothing absolutism.
Hence doˈnothingism, doˈnothingness, the habit or practice of doing nothing; the condition of doing nothing; idleness; indolence.
1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park (1870) III. viii. 340 A situation of similar affluence and do-nothing-ness. 1839Carlyle Chartism vii. 152 Self-cancelling Donothingism. 1879Mrs. Houston Wild West 77 Gaunt, enfeebled-looking labourers abused for their idleness, their do-nothingness. 1891Sat. Rev. 5 Sept. 267/2 Dangerous apathy and donothingism. |