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doleite en · NOUN

Etymology

From dole + -ite.

Meanings

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

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