Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shiftless; good-for-nothing.
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Examples
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'doless' creatures, who couldn't spin a hank of yarn, or gin a pound of cotton, or heel a sock.
The Master-Knot of Human Fate Ellis Meredith
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I shall doless whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall domore whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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I shall doless whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall domore whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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I shall doless whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall domore whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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I shall doless whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall domore whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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I shall doless whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall domore whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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Why, Pat didn't know nothin 'about it when he begun, and now he can cook meat and potatoes and such better as many a doless girl I've seen.
The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger
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I had bemeaned and berated and faulted her so continual ', and belt her up as a pore, doless creetur', without no backbone or ambition; and now I knowed that if thar ever were a tender, ginuwine, angel daughter on this here earth, it were her to me.
Sight to the Blind Lucy Furman
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She has a whole host of doless relatives, whom she props up whenever they need it, and, "as though an afterthought," they always need it. "
Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall R. G. [Illustrator] Vosburgh 1895
sarahemc2 commented on the word doless
This is an Appalachianism from Southern West Virginia, meaning lazy. "That boy is just plain doless." Meaning he is without "do."
April 23, 2008