doleite

English

Etymology

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 […]