PALTRY
ADJECTIVES
► AUCHIMUTY mean, paltry → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► BALD bare or destitute of meaning or force; lacking in vividness of description; meagre, trivial, paltry → 1362
► BARE poor in quality, paltry, worthless → 1399 obs.
► BAUBLING trifling, contemptible, paltry, insignificant → 1601 obs.
► DIRTY contemptible, paltry; mean, dishonest → 1900 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FOOTLE worthless, paltry, trifling, insignificant → 1894
► FRIVOL frivolous, paltry, flimsy, absurd → 1492 chiefly Sc., obs.
► INKLING paltry, measly → 1969 Amer. dial.
► LEATHER-LANE paltry→ 1810 cant
► MALLIFUFF silly, paltry, incapable of energetic action, feckless → 1827 Sc.
► NACKLE-ASS of persons and things: poor, mean, inferior, paltry → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PALTERING trifling, worthless, despicable, paltry → 1553 obs.
► PALTERLY paltry, mean, shabby, worthless, mean→ 1666 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► PALTHERLY paltry, worthless, mean → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PALTING petty, trifling, paltry → 1579 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► PAULTERLY paltry, worthless, mean → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PICAYUNE mean, contemptible, paltry; of small value or importance → 1856 Amer. colloq.
► PICKSNIFF paltry, despicable → 19C Eng. dial.
► PISSING paltry; brief → 16C colloq.
► POKEY ► POKY insignificant; paltry → 1849 US sl.
► RAGABASH contemptible, mean, paltry; good-for-nothing → 19C Eng. dial.
► ROINOUS coarse, mean, paltry, base, nasty, contemptible → c1366 obs.
► SAIR sorry, paltry, puny, pitiful → 1825 Sc.
► SAIRIE ► SAIRY ► SARRY in a poor or sorry state, pitiable, woeful, incompetent, paltry → 1721 Sc.
► SCABBED mean, paltry, worthless, petty; ill-looking, shabby → 1701 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCRATTING paltry → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRAWLING mean, despicable, paltry; worthless, miserably small → 1876 Eng. dial.
► SNEAKBILL mean, paltry, sneaking → 1611 obs.
► STERQUILINIOUS pertaining to a dunghill; hence, dirty, mean, paltry → c1645 obs.
► TWADDLING petty, paltry, trifling, insignificant → 1863
► TWATTLING petty, trifling, paltry → 1651 obs.
► TWELVE-PENNY of small value, paltry, insignificant → 1604
► TWIDDLING trifling, paltry → 1844
► WAFF 1. feeble, insignificant, paltry; weak, worn-out → 1796 Sc.
2. of things, qualities, etc.: weak, lacking strength or substance, flimsy, shoddy, paltry, of little account → 1810 Sc.
► WAIF paltry, weak, inferior; worn-out → 1791 Sc. obs.
NOUNS
► BAUBLE a thing or article of no value; a paltry piece of rubbish, something worthless → 1634
► PALTERINGS trifles, worthless or paltry things → 1611 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► JACK a general term of contempt for a saucy or paltry person; a worthless fellow → 1848 (Bk.)
► NACKLE-ASS an incompetent, paltry fellow; a term of contempt → 1886 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PICKSNIFF an insignificant, paltry, contemptible person → 1862 Eng. dial.
► SNEAKBILL a term of contempt; a mean, paltry, or sneaking fellow; a starved or thin-faced person → 1562 obs.
► SNEAKSBY a mean-spirited person; a cowardly, creeping scoundrel; a paltry fellow; a sneak → 1580
► THING-O-WOLD a paltry, insignificant person → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WHIFFMAGIG a trifler; an insignificant, contemptible person; a mean, paltry person → 1871
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