Do-little

Quick meaning: Do-little is a noun meaning (colloquial) Someone who does, performs or achieves little.

Meaning

(colloquial) Someone who does, performs or achieves little.

Example Sentences

Great talkers are commonly do-littles.

I know an instance of a woman, who by labor and economy had scraped together a little maintenance for herself and a do-little husband, who was left, at his death, by virtue of his last will and testament, to be supported by charity.

Joe Ed was a stocky blond boy who could play a guitar and shoot the eye out of a possum at fifty yards—but not much else. What astonished everyone was Florella’s regard for such a do-little, since she was halfway promised to a boy from Owl’s Hollow.

"Is that all I am good for now? I was good for mair than that in the great fight between our folk and Patrico Salmon's; if I had not helped you with these very fambles, (holding up her hands) Jean Baillie would have frummagem'd you, ye feckless do-little."

Word Forms

• do-littles

Synonyms for do-little

Depending on context, synonyms include layabout.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include littlie, doctorling, lordlet, littlun, lilliputian, lorel.

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