a. and sb. Sc. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.) [f. WAN- + WORTH a. and sb.] a. adj. Worthless. b. sb. ‘An undervalue’ (Jam.).
17[?]. Ramsay, Dunbar’s Flyting, in Evergreen, II. 57. Worlin wanworth [the original has Forworthin wirling].
a. 1774. Fergusson, Poems (1789), II. 88. The Council winna lack sae meikle grace As lat our heritage at wanworth gang.
