WELFARE
NOUNS
► GOOD HEAL welfare, fortune → c1175 obs.
► HAIL health, safety, welfare → a1400-50 chiefly N. Eng. dial. obs.
► HALE health, well-being, welfare; cure, remedy → a1200 obs.
► HEAL well-being, welfare, safety; prosperity → c950 obs. exc. Sc.
► HEALNESS welfare; salvation → c897 obs.
► HEALTH well-being, welfare, safety; deliverance → c1250 obs.
► HELE health, welfare → 1768 Ireland obs.
► MOTHER’S DAY the day a woman on the Country Welfare gets her check → 1965 US sl. (Bk.)
► ON-GETTING welfare, manner of getting on → 1886 Sc.
► POGEY ► POGY a welfare payment for the needy → 1960 Amer. sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► HAPPY-PAPPY a man on welfare employed to do work on roads or just draw money; a man on the dole → 1969 Amer. dial.
► WELFARE BITCH a person living on welfare → 1971 US sl.
► WELFARE PIMP a man living off a woman’s welfare check → 1971 US sl.
► WELFARITE a person supported by public welfare; a person on relief → 1974 US disparaging usage
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