wore-out

American  

[wawr-out, wohr-] / ˈwɔrˈaʊt, ˈwoʊr- /

adjective

Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.

1. worn-out.

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wore-out

Young folks don't have no consideration for the old wore-out parents.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 5 by Work Projects Administration

His buying those wore-out mines and saying he’s going to make the Forest is damaging evidence against him.

From At the Crossroads by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

You can allus sell hens when they git too old to set or lay, but what’re you going to do with a wore-out incubator?”

From Anything Once by Ostrander, Isabel

The top of the hill, as I found when first I climbed up there, was a wore-out crater.

From Friend Island by Stevens, Francis

The mother she come near 'bout up to my shoulder and was thin and wore-out lookin'.

From The Man in Lonely Land by Bosher, Kate Langley