Chapter intro

Mauchtless

- feeble, without strength or energy, limp, helpless; sluggish, lethargic, lackadaisical like the character in James Cock’s Simple Strains (1824): She’s maughtless, doited, auld, an’ crazy, An’ tint [lost] a’ spirit. Most of us can feel a bit mauchtless on Mondays.

Maucht Shilpit