wore-out

American  

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

adjective

Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S.

1. worn-out.

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wore-out

Tell you what: me and Doanie'll let you both rest them poor little wore-out arms right now!

From Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt! by Jewell Ellen Smith

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 Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

Well, the poor man come in afther a bit,' says the Gout, 'an' I slipped in through a crack in his owld wore-out brogue, an' into his toe.

From North, South and over the Sea by M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis

An’ what is the noise I hear save one them wore-out hurdy-gurdies, that do be roamin’ the country over, soon’s ever the town gets too hot to hold ’em?

From A Sunny Little Lass by Evelyn Raymond

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 Isabel Ostrander