INCAPABILITY, INCAPABLE
ADJECTIVES
► BAFFED ► BAFT baffled, confused, incapable → 1990s UK sl.
► BASSED baffled, confused, incapable → 2007 UK sl. (Bk.)
► FECKLESS lacking resourcefulness, incapable, incompetent, shiftless → a1774 orig. Sc.
► HAIVELESS shiftless, incapable, careless, extravagant, slovenly in habit, ill-mannered; unrefined → 1866 Sc.
► HALF-COCKED not fully capable; not completely thought out; unfinished; incomplete → 1833 US sl.
► HANDLESS incapable or incompetent with the hands, or in action; awkward, clumsy → 1413 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► LANTING weakly, incapable → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MATTERLESS incapable; incompetent; helpless; shiftless → 1794 Eng. dial.
► OBADOUS ► OBJADOUS ► UBADOUS useless, incapable, weakly → a1838 Sc. obs.
► PARALYSED knocked out, incapable → L19 US sl.
► THRUMMY-THRUM useless, incapable → 1870 Ireland
► UGGOVOUS ► UGIOVOUS destitute, having nothing left; incapable, weakly, useless → a1838 Sc. obs.
► UNCAPABLE incapable → 1587 obs.
► UNDEEDY helpless, incapable → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
ADVERBS
► UNABLY in an unable or incapable manner → a1400-50 obs.
NOUNS
► UNCAPABILITY incapability → c1642 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ABLACH ► ABLACK ► ABLICH an insignificant, worthless person; an incapable person → 1852 Sc.
► CABBAGE a brain-damaged or mentally subnormal person; an inert, incapable person → 1987 colloq., offensive
► MAFFLE-HORN an incapable, blundering, inefficient person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► UNDOUGHT a weak, puny person; a silly, incapable, worthless person → 1644 Sc.
► WALKING CORPSE a person hardly distinguishable from a corpse save by the power of movement; a feeble, useless, incapable fellow; a ‘moving piece of flesh’ → 1693
► YOWMAN a stupid, incapable fellow → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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