doleite

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English

Etymology

From dole +‎ -ite.

Noun

doleite (plural doleites)

  1. (informal) Somebody on the dole, receiving government welfare for unemployment.
    • 2005, Monica Barry, Youth Policy And Social Inclusion, page 123:
      Ordinary out-of-school youth make a similar distinction between themselves and the slapheads, doleites or dossers.
    • 2011, Jon Gaunt, Undaunted: The True Story Behind the Popular Shock-Jock:
      He was a poet and from a completely different class than us bunch of working-class doleites []