naught : Idioms & Phrases

Do"-naught` noun

Etymology

Do + naught.

Definitions

1. A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.

Webster 1913

• noun an idle worthless person
  no-account; goldbrick; good-for-nothing; goof-off; ne'er-do-well.
  
• adjective satellite without merit
  no-good; meritless; no-account; no-count; sorry; good-for-nothing.
  
  • a sorry horse
  • a sorry excuse
  • a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick
  • the car was a no-good piece of junk

WordNet

• (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling.

Webster 1913

• to undervalue; to contemn; to despise. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel." Prov. i. 25.
• to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel."

Webster 1913