Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who does nothing; an idle, good-for-nothing person. Also dialectally donnaught, donnat, donnot.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic A lazy good-for-nothing.

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