SHIFTLESS
ADJECTIVES
1774 — FECKLESS lacking resourcefulness, incapable, incompetent, shiftless
1794 — MATTERLESS helpless; shiftless → Eng. dial.
1802 — SLACK-TWISTED mentally weak, shiftless
1832 — DO-NOTHING lacking energy, inactive, lethargic; lazy, shiftless → Amer. dial.
1832 — TRIFLING lazy, shiftless, inefficient, worthless, good-for-nothing → Amer. dial.
1853 — NO-COUNT worthless, lazy, shiftless; useless → Amer. dial.
1859 — DO-LESS lacking energy, inactive, lethargic; lazy, shiftless → Amer. dial.
1866 — HAIVELESS shiftless, incapable, careless, extravagant, slovenly in habit → Sc.
1868 — HAVELESS without resources, shiftless, helpless → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1893 — GATLESS half-witted, shiftless, careless, thoughtless, idle, heedless → Eng. dial.
1894 — SHACKLING shiftless, lazy; going from one job to another → Amer. dial.
1898 — AVENLESS shiftless, without any faculty for contriving → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — NEEDLESS shiftless, helpless; unruly, heedless → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1936 — MESS-AHEAD shiftless → Amer. dial.
1953 — IDLESOME lazy, shiftless → Amer. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1700 — TOOL a shiftless person → Eng. dial. & sl.
1828 — SHACK a tramp; a bum; a vagabond; a good-for-nothing; a shiftless fellow → Amer. dial.
1850 — TRUNDLE-BED TRASH a low-class, shiftless person or group → Amer. dial.
1864 — BUM a lazy shiftless person; a habitual loafer → sl.
1865 — BEAT an idle, worthless, or shiftless fellow; a loafer → US
1869 — DO-NOTHING an idle person; a lazy or shiftless person1 → Amer. dial.
1888 — (OLD) TOOT a shiftless, lazy person → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1899 — POOR SHOTE a shiftless or worthless person → Amer. dial.
1901 — CODGER a vagrant; a shiftless, worthless person
1914 — MOOCH a beggar or shiftless character → Amer. sl.
1916 — SLURRUP a shiftless, untidy woman; a slattern → Amer. dial.
1958 — TICK a man too lazy to work, and too shiftless to move → Amer. dial.
1965 — DO-LESS a lazy or shiftless person; a good-for-nothing; a very silly or light-headed person → Amer. dial.
1985 — NO-USER a shiftless or useless person; a failure → Irish & Sc. sl.
1994 — POOR DO a shiftless, trifling person; a ne’er-do-well → Amer. dial.
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