a. Sc. [f. WEIRD sb. + -LESS.] Destined to ill fortune, ill-fated, unlucky; hence unbusinesslike, incapable, worthless.
c. 1800. Mary Hamilton, iii. in Child, Ballads, III. 391/2. And wae be to that weirdless wicht.
1821. Joseph the Book-Man, 99. Ye weirdless, naughty, spendthrift man.
1825. Jamieson, Weirdless 2. Destitute of any capacity to manage worldly affairs, S.
1864. Latto, Tam. Bodkin, x. 93. What could she think … but that I behooved to be some wild, weirdless, ne’er-do-weel?
Hence Weirdlessness.
1825. Jamieson, Weirdlessness, wasteful mismanagement.
1850. Aberdeen Weekly Jrnl., 17 Oct., 3/3. It would be easy to mark a house, here and there, wearing a look of dull contented weirdlessness.
