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little-worth, a. (n.) Now arch. and Sc.
Of little worth; esp. Sc. = of worthless character.
c1200Ormin 16518 All swa summ itt wass litell wurrþ Till þeȝȝre sawle nede. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋236 Right so as contricion auailleth noght with⁓outen sad purpos of shrifte..right so litel worth is shrifte or satisfaccion with⁓outen contricion. 1565Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 41 M. Harding saith, all this that I haue heere alleged..is Little-worth stuffe. 1611Bible Prov. x. 20 The heart of the wicked is little worth. 1733E. Erskine Serm. Wks. 1871 II. 189 Lax little-worth young men. 1785Boswell Tour Hebrides 75 He had once come to a stranger who sent for him; and he found him ‘a little-worth person!’ 1825–80Jamieson s.v., He's a littleworth body. 1850Tennyson In Mem. lxxxv. 30, I..Whose life, whose thoughts were little worth.
b. n. A ‘little-worth’ person.
1825–80Jamieson, Little worth. This term is used substantively in Dumfr[ies]; as, He's a littleworth. |