do-little

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English

Noun

do-little (plural do-littles)

  1. (colloquial) One who performs little though professing much.
    • 1655, John Richardson, Choice Observations and Explanations of the Old Testament :
      Great talkers are commonly do-littles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “do-little”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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