POOR-SPIRITED
ADJECTIVES
► MEECHING poor-spirited, melancholy, complaining → 1836 Eng. dial.
► MELCH-HEARTED gentle, diffident, timid, poor-spirited → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MILK-HEARTED poor-spirited → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NESH timid; wanting in courage, cowardly; faint-hearted; poor-spirited → 1382 obs. exc. Eng. dial.