Thursday, August 26, 2010

Today's Word "bootless"


Bootless \BOOT-lis\ (adjective) - Unavailing; useless; without advantage or benefit. "I have seen a swanWith bootless labour swim against the tide."-- Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III Bootless is from Old English bot, "advantage, profit" + -less, from Old English from leas, "without."

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