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单词 undought
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undoughtn.

Forms: 1500s wn-, 1600s vndought, undought; 1500s wn-, vn-, 1700s undocht, 1600s vndoght; 1500s vndoche, 1600s undoch.
Etymology: un- prefix1 6 + dought adj. Compare North Frisian ündöght worthless person; West Frisian on-, ûnducht corrupt or morbid matter; obsolete Flemish ondocht a worthless kind of crab (Kilian).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: unˈdought.
Scottish. Now rare or Obsolete.
An ineffective worthless person. (Cf. wandought n. and adj.)
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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).
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