Thowless

And, thowless, he tint his gate 'mang the deep snaw; ❋ Various (N/A)

And, thowless, 11 he tint12 his gate ’mang the deep snaw: ❋ Unknown (1909)

He was all she had, for Janet was a thowless [2] thing, too like her mother for her mother to like her. ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)

Had you called him indolent or useless he had smiled, but "daidlin ', thowless, feckless, fushionless wratch," drew blood at every stroke, like a Russian knout. ❋ Ian Maclaren (1878)

"Haud yere tongue, ye cowardly loon," said the mother, "and layna the wyte on me; if you and thae thowless gluttons, that are sitting staring like cows bursting on clover, wad testify wi 'your hands as I have testified wi' my tongue, they should never harle the precious young lad awa 'to captivity." ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

“And you, ye thowless jade, to sit still and see my substance disponed upon to an idle, drunken, reprobate, worm-eaten serving-man, just because he kittles the lugs ❋ Unknown (2008)

a "tapetless, ramfeezl'd hizzie," "saft at best an 'something lazy;" she is a "thowless jad;" or she is dethroned altogether: ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)

I would have thocht the thowless trauchle [3] hadna the smeddum left to interfere. " ❋ George Douglas Brown (1885)

"A wud tell the daidlin ', thowless, feckless, fushionless wratch o' ❋ Ian Maclaren (1878)

"And you, ye thowless jade, to sit still and see my substance disponed upon to an idle, drunken, reprobate, worm-eaten serving-man, just because he kittles the lugs o 'a silly auld wife wi' useless clavers, and every twa words a lee? ❋ Walter Scott (1801)