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prettygoodword) wrote2012-06-04 07:08 am
prettygoodword) wrote2012-06-04 07:08 am
feckless
feckless (FEK-les) - adj., weak, ineffectual, incompetent; lacking purpose, worthless, lazy.
Lacking effect, literally -- for the feck is a medieval Scots contraction of effect. There are two general senses here: being unable to do anything and lacking the will to. First recorded in 1585, used strictly in Scots dialect until Thomas Carlyle popularized it in general English use.
---L.
Lacking effect, literally -- for the feck is a medieval Scots contraction of effect. There are two general senses here: being unable to do anything and lacking the will to. First recorded in 1585, used strictly in Scots dialect until Thomas Carlyle popularized it in general English use.
---L.