thowless

And, thowless, he tint his gate 'mang the deep snaw;

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

And, thowless, 11 he tint12 his gate ’mang the deep snaw:

Come Under My Plaidie 1909

He was all she had, for Janet was a thowless [2] thing, too like her mother for her mother to like her.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

Had you called him indolent or useless he had smiled, but "daidlin ', thowless, feckless, fushionless wratch," drew blood at every stroke, like a Russian knout.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

"Haud yere tongue, ye cowardly loon," said the mother, "and layna the wyte on me; if you and thae thowless gluttons, that are sitting staring like cows bursting on clover, wad testify wi 'your hands as I have testified wi' my tongue, they should never harle the precious young lad awa 'to captivity."

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

"Haud yere tongue, ye cowardly loon," said the mother, "and layna the wyte on me; if you and thae thowless gluttons, that are sitting staring like cows bursting on clover, wad testify wi 'your hands as I have testified wi' my tongue, they should never harle the precious young lad awa 'to captivity."

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

“And you, ye thowless jade, to sit still and see my substance disponed upon to an idle, drunken, reprobate, worm-eaten serving-man, just because he kittles the lugs

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

a "tapetless, ramfeezl'd hizzie," "saft at best an 'something lazy;" she is a "thowless jad;" or she is dethroned altogether:

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

I would have thocht the thowless trauchle [3] hadna the smeddum left to interfere. "

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

"A wud tell the daidlin ', thowless, feckless, fushionless wratch o'

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878