Fushionless
- dull, flat, uninspired. The curate, John Halftext, in Sir Walter Scott’s Old Mortality (1816) was unlikely to light any evangelical fires. His parishioner will not wait upon the thowless, thriftless, fissenless ministry of that carnal man. G. Outram uses the word in a very specific sense in Legal and other Lyrics (1874): His houghs are gane, an’ when nicht sets in, He’s fusionless as a wether, but it is a more general kind of marital inactivity that Alison Taylor castigates in Bitter Bread (1929): Haven’t I seen them working and slaving, poor fules, from morn to nicht, just because they’ve married some lazy fishionless creature? A great word and ideal for people whose get up and go has got up and gone.