doleite

noun

Etymology

From dole + -ite.

  1. inherited from *dʰayl-
  2. inherited from *dailą
  3. inherited from dāl
  4. inherited from dol
  5. suffixed as doleite — “dole + ite

Definitions

  1. Somebody on the dole, receiving government welfare for unemployment.

    • Ordinary out-of-school youth make a similar distinction between themselves and the slapheads, doleites or dossers.
    • He was a poet and from a completely different class than us bunch of working-class doleites[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doleite. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA