little worthadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌlɪt(ə)l ˈwəːθ/, U.S.

/ˌlɪd(ə)l ˈwərθ/, Scottish English

/ˌlɪt(ə)l ˈwʌrθ/

Forms: see little adj., pron., n., and adv. and worth adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: little adv., worth adj.

Etymology: < little adv. + worth adj.

Now archaic or Scottish (chiefly Orkney and Shetland).

A. adj.

1. Not worth much, of little value or use. Also: (of a person) having little wealth, poor.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little worth

undearc897

little worthc1175

sorry1372

petitc1390

simplec1440

noughty1508

quadrant1589

weak1600

cheapa1604

patch panel1606

unprizablea1616

petite1766

Sears-Roebuck1917

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16518 All swa summ itt wass litell wurrþ. Till þeȝȝre sawle nede.

a1300 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Jesus Oxf.) (1955) 111 So is mony gedelyng godlyche on horse, and is þeyh lutel wurþ.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 615 He..doth to seme of gret decerte Thing which is litel worth withinne.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) §236 Right so as Contricioun auaileth nat w^t outen sad purpos of shrifte..right so litel worth is shrifte or satisfaccioun with oute Contricioun.

1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) ciii. sig. f4^v Ayens strength feblenesse is litell worth.

1570 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (new ed.) i. vi. §́1. 49 M. Hardinge saithe, al this that I haue here alleged..is, Litle woorth stuffe.

1608 in E. Hubbard City Women (2012) (modernized text) ii. 60 She is a poor servant little worth, although she sayeth she had £40 left in the chamber of London by her father.

1611 Bible (King James) Prov. x. 20 The heart of the wicked is little worth .

1693 R. Redding in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 659/2 I have sent you..a few of the Pearls, though clouded and little worth.

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iv. ii. 69 Mirk Dispair, Made me think Life was little worth.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 243 He..brings his bev'rage home, Far-fetch'd and little worth.

1835 J. Monteath Dunblane Trad. 70 There's mony little-worth marriages now-a-days.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxiii. 118 I..Whose life, whose thoughts were little worth .

1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ I. vi. 78 Even now it is a Jewish proverb that a fat Rabbi is little worth.

1893 A. Besant Autobiogr. vii. 156 But little worth these priceless jewels, little worth liberty and equality with all their promise for mankind, little worth even wider happiness, if that happiness be selfish.

1898 in L. Abrams Myth & Materiality in Woman's World (2005) v. 135 [She] lives with her sister in a littleworth house.

1908 in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. I. viii. 317 Hid wad be better ta geong aboot wi' a little wirt name nor loss da twa tree babees I hae.

1967 G. Bruce Sc. Poetry No. 2. 56 Da gowan noo is little wirt.

2. spec. (Scottish). Of a person: having no good qualities, unprincipled, worthless. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective]

unprincipled1644

improbous1657

little wortha1754

standardless1853

down and dirty1960

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless

naughteOE

unworthc960

nought worthOE

unworthya1240

vaina1300

lewd1362

base?1510

to be nothing toc1520

stark naught1528

nothing worth1535

worthilessa1542

draffish1543

baggage1548

dunghill?1555

valureless1563

toyish1572

worthless1573

out (forth) of door (also doors)1574

leaden1577

riff-raff1577

drafty1582

fecklessc1586

dudgeon?1589

nought-worth1589

tenpenny1592

wanwordy?a1595

shotten herring1598

nugatory1603

unvalued1604

priceless1614

unvaluable1615

valuelessa1616

waste1616

trashya1620

draffy1624

stramineous1624

invaluable1640

roly-poly?1645

nugatorious1646

perquisquilian1647

niffling1649

lazy1671

wanworth1724

little wortha1754

flimsy1756

waff1788

null1790

nothingy1801

nothingly1802

twopenny-halfpenny1809

not worth a flaw1810

garbage1817

peanut1836

duffing1839

trash1843

no-account1845

no-count1851

punky1859

rummagy1872

junky1880

skilligalee1883

footle1894

punk1896

wherry-go-nimble1901

junk1908

rinky-dink1913

schlock1916

tripe1927

duff1938

chickenshit1940

sheg-up1941

expendable1942

(strictly) for the birds1943

tripey1955

schlocky1960

naff1964

dipshit1968

cack1978

a1754 E. Erskine Serm. in Wks. (1785) 677/2 Lax, little-worth young men.

1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 21 Aug. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 75 He had once come to a stranger who sent for him; and he found him ‘a little-worth person!’

1822 J. Galt Provost xxxvi The actress was a little-worth, termagant woman.

1853 W. Watson Poems 46 Yer claes are yer ain! so, an' wha's ca' ye mine, Ye little worth piece o' a little worth kin'.

1886 J. J. H. Burgess Shetland Sketches & Poems 30 I tink he's a little-wirt kind o' a crater.

1915 J. Wilson Lowland Scotch Lower Strathearn 202 Hee'z a luttul wurth craitur: He's a useless creature.

†B. n. In form littleworth.

1. Scottish (south-western). A person of little value or use; a worthless or unprincipled person. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > worthless

chaffc1386

noughta1400

noughtinga1500

trifle?a1500

undought1508

wallydraigle?a1513

jackstraw1565

oatmeal-groat1594

trasha1616

Jack-of-strawa1625

little worth1823

wanworth1832

shicer1846

nowt1847

no good1871

two-spot1885

cannon fodder1917

crumb1918

no-gooder1936

nogoodnik1936

schmatte1967

1823 T. Carlyle Let. 26 Mar. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) II. 315 I rejoice too that you have done with the genius: those geniuses are the most arrant littleworths in nature.

1823 T. Carlyle Let. 20 Dec. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) II. 489 Calvert is now in Annan jail. I am sorry for Parliament; tho' he is a littleworth.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Littleworth, this term is used substantively in Dumfr.; as, He's a littleworth.

2. A person with little wealth, a poor person. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person

poorc1225

poor man?c1225

beggar1340

goodlessa1350

poreleta1382

miserable1484

poor one1562

bankrupt?1563

indigent1563

poorling1581

poor snake1590

needling1608

desperviewa1640

have-nota1739

angishore1835

little worth1885

1885 G. Meredith in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 267 My care was but to soothe my need; At peace among the littleworths.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	little worth
释义	little worthadj.n. Brit. /ˌlɪt(ə)l ˈwəːθ/, U.S. /ˌlɪd(ə)l ˈwərθ/, Scottish English /ˌlɪt(ə)l ˈwʌrθ/ Forms: see little adj., pron., n., and adv. and worth adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: little adv., worth adj. Etymology: < little adv. + worth adj. Now archaic or Scottish (chiefly Orkney and Shetland). A. adj. 1. Not worth much, of little value or use. Also: (of a person) having little wealth, poor. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little worth undearc897 little worthc1175 sorry1372 petitc1390 simplec1440 noughty1508 quadrant1589 weak1600 cheapa1604 patch panel1606 unprizablea1616 petite1766 Sears-Roebuck1917 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16518 All swa summ itt wass litell wurrþ. Till þeȝȝre sawle nede. a1300 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Jesus Oxf.) (1955) 111 So is mony gedelyng godlyche on horse, and is þeyh lutel wurþ. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 615 He..doth to seme of gret decerte Thing which is litel worth withinne. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) §236 Right so as Contricioun auaileth nat w^t outen sad purpos of shrifte..right so litel worth is shrifte or satisfaccioun with oute Contricioun. 1480 Cronicles Eng. (Caxton) ciii. sig. f4^v Ayens strength feblenesse is litell worth. 1570 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (new ed.) i. vi. §́1. 49 M. Hardinge saithe, al this that I haue here alleged..is, Litle woorth stuffe. 1608 in E. Hubbard City Women (2012) (modernized text) ii. 60 She is a poor servant little worth, although she sayeth she had £40 left in the chamber of London by her father. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. x. 20 The heart of the wicked is little worth . View more context for this quotation 1693 R. Redding in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 659/2 I have sent you..a few of the Pearls, though clouded and little worth. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iv. ii. 69 Mirk Dispair, Made me think Life was little worth. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 243 He..brings his bev'rage home, Far-fetch'd and little worth. 1835 J. Monteath Dunblane Trad. 70 There's mony little-worth marriages now-a-days. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxiii. 118 I..Whose life, whose thoughts were little worth . View more context for this quotation 1877 J. C. Geikie Life & Words Christ I. vi. 78 Even now it is a Jewish proverb that a fat Rabbi is little worth. 1893 A. Besant Autobiogr. vii. 156 But little worth these priceless jewels, little worth liberty and equality with all their promise for mankind, little worth even wider happiness, if that happiness be selfish. 1898 in L. Abrams Myth & Materiality in Woman's World (2005) v. 135 [She] lives with her sister in a littleworth house. 1908 in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. I. viii. 317 Hid wad be better ta geong aboot wi' a little wirt name nor loss da twa tree babees I hae. 1967 G. Bruce Sc. Poetry No. 2. 56 Da gowan noo is little wirt. 2. spec. (Scottish). Of a person: having no good qualities, unprincipled, worthless. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adjective] unprincipled1644 improbous1657 little wortha1754 standardless1853 down and dirty1960 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless naughteOE unworthc960 nought worthOE unworthya1240 vaina1300 lewd1362 base?1510 to be nothing toc1520 stark naught1528 nothing worth1535 worthilessa1542 draffish1543 baggage1548 dunghill?1555 valureless1563 toyish1572 worthless1573 out (forth) of door (also doors)1574 leaden1577 riff-raff1577 drafty1582 fecklessc1586 dudgeon?1589 nought-worth1589 tenpenny1592 wanwordy?a1595 shotten herring1598 nugatory1603 unvalued1604 priceless1614 unvaluable1615 valuelessa1616 waste1616 trashya1620 draffy1624 stramineous1624 invaluable1640 roly-poly?1645 nugatorious1646 perquisquilian1647 niffling1649 lazy1671 wanworth1724 little wortha1754 flimsy1756 waff1788 null1790 nothingy1801 nothingly1802 twopenny-halfpenny1809 not worth a flaw1810 garbage1817 peanut1836 duffing1839 trash1843 no-account1845 no-count1851 punky1859 rummagy1872 junky1880 skilligalee1883 footle1894 punk1896 wherry-go-nimble1901 junk1908 rinky-dink1913 schlock1916 tripe1927 duff1938 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 expendable1942 (strictly) for the birds1943 tripey1955 schlocky1960 naff1964 dipshit1968 cack1978 a1754 E. Erskine Serm. in Wks. (1785) 677/2 Lax, little-worth young men. 1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 21 Aug. in Jrnl. Tour Hebrides (1785) 75 He had once come to a stranger who sent for him; and he found him ‘a little-worth person!’ 1822 J. Galt Provost xxxvi The actress was a little-worth, termagant woman. 1853 W. Watson Poems 46 Yer claes are yer ain! so, an' wha's ca' ye mine, Ye little worth piece o' a little worth kin'. 1886 J. J. H. Burgess Shetland Sketches & Poems 30 I tink he's a little-wirt kind o' a crater. 1915 J. Wilson Lowland Scotch Lower Strathearn 202 Hee'z a luttul wurth craitur: He's a useless creature. †B. n. In form littleworth. 1. Scottish (south-western). A person of little value or use; a worthless or unprincipled person. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > worthless chaffc1386 noughta1400 noughtinga1500 trifle?a1500 undought1508 wallydraigle?a1513 jackstraw1565 oatmeal-groat1594 trasha1616 Jack-of-strawa1625 little worth1823 wanworth1832 shicer1846 nowt1847 no good1871 two-spot1885 cannon fodder1917 crumb1918 no-gooder1936 nogoodnik1936 schmatte1967 1823 T. Carlyle Let. 26 Mar. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) II. 315 I rejoice too that you have done with the genius: those geniuses are the most arrant littleworths in nature. 1823 T. Carlyle Let. 20 Dec. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) II. 489 Calvert is now in Annan jail. I am sorry for Parliament; tho' he is a littleworth. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Littleworth, this term is used substantively in Dumfr.; as, He's a littleworth. 2. A person with little wealth, a poor person. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person poorc1225 poor man?c1225 beggar1340 goodlessa1350 poreleta1382 miserable1484 poor one1562 bankrupt?1563 indigent1563 poorling1581 poor snake1590 needling1608 desperviewa1640 have-nota1739 angishore1835 little worth1885 1885 G. Meredith in Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 267 My care was but to soothe my need; At peace among the littleworths. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1175
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