Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Foolish; heedless.
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Examples
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He averred, however, that the poet, when pinched for a word, hesitated not to coin one, and instanced, "tapetless," "ramfeezled," and "forjesket," as intrusions in our dialect.
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a "tapetless, ramfeezl'd hizzie," "saft at best an 'something lazy;" she is a "thowless jad;" or she is dethroned altogether:
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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