sb. and a. Sc. Also wandocht, -dout, -dough. [f. WAN- + DOUGHT sb. and a. Cf. UNDOUGHT sb., UNDOUGHTY a.]

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  A.  sb. A feeble or puny person.

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a. 1728.  W. Starrat, Epistle, 53, in Ramsay’s Poems (1728), II. 109. And when thou bids the paughty Czar stand yon, The Wandought seems beneath thee on his Throne.

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1768.  Ross, Helenore, I. 9. Lindy is … Nae bursen bailch, nac wandought [1796, 1812, wandough] or misgrown, But plump an’ swack an’ like an apple round.

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1850.  J. Struthers, Poet. Wks., I. My Life, 10. Mrs. Baillie … out of pure compassion for the wandought, had him frequently brought in to her.

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  B.  adj. Feeble, ineffective, worthless.

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1788.  Picken, Poems, 160. My wandocht, rustic Muse, Gane hafflens daiz’t an’ doitet, Begins to glunch.

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1819.  A. Balfour, Campbell, I. xviii. 334. That wandought ne’er-do-weel o’ a dominie.

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1836.  Marg. Mackintosh, Cottager’s Dau., 62. She was nane o your wandought menseless folk.

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