Word Meanings - DO-NAUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.

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• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• FELLOWLIKE
  Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
• FELLOWLY
  Fellowlike. Shak.
• NOTHINGARIAN
  One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
• NOTHER
  Neither; nor. Chaucer.
• FELLOW
  companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows
• NOTHING
  A cipher; naught. Nothing but, only; no more than. Chaucer. -- To make nothing of. To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. "We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls
• NOTHINGISM
  Nihility; nothingness.
• FELLOW-CREATURE
  One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.
• FELLOWFEEL
  To share through sympathy; to participate in. D. Rodgers.
• FELLOWLESS
  Without fellow or equal; peerless. Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless. Chapman.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The
• BEDFELLOW
  One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• NEGINOTH
  Stringed instruments. Dr. W. Smith. To the chief musician on Neginoth. Ps. iv. 9heading).
• UNFELLOWED
  Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.
• DISFELLOWSHIP
  To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
• ODD FELLOW
  A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
• PEWFELLOW
  1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.
• MONOTHEIST
  One who believes that there is but one God.
• DO-NOTHINGISM; DO-NOTHINGNESS
  Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. Carlyle. Miss Austen.