单词 | undought |
释义 | undoughtn. Scottish. Now rare or Obsolete. An ineffective worthless person. (Cf. wandought n. and adj.) 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 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 217 Tak the a fidill or a floyte, and geste! Wndought, thou art ordanyt to not ellis. a1583 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibardine MS.) 454 Let nevir þis vndoche [v.rr. vndoght, vndought] of evill doing Irk. 1636 W. Scot Apol. Narr. (1846) 239 Mr. George Grahame, the undought of Bishops. 1679 in R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1828) IV. 501 Mr. Brown being removed, they will have little to do to trample upon the poor undought that is left behind. 1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. Gloss. Undocht, or wandocht, a silly weak person. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1508 |
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