wastegood
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Noun
wastegood (plural wastegoods)
- (obsolete) A spendthrift.
- 1592, Greene, Robert, Collier, John Payne, editor, A Qvip for an Vpstart Courtier, reprint edition, published 1870, page 67:
- This firſt, whom by his careleſſe ſlovenly gate, at firſt ſight, I imagined to be a Poet, is a waſte good and an unthrift, that he is born to make the taverns rich, and himſelfe a begger […]
- 1592, Nash, Thomas, Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuell:
- Ayoong Heyre or Corkney, that is his Mothers Darling, if he haue playde the waste-good at the Innes of the Court or about London, and that neither his Students pension, nor his vnthrifts credite will serue to maintaine his Collidge of whores any longer […]
- 1621, Middleton, Thomas; Webster, John, Anything for a Quiet Life, act 2, scene 3; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 4, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 450:
- Give my waste-good your stuffs, and go with my cousin, sir; he'll presently despatch you.
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Synonyms
- scattergood, wastethrift; See also Thesaurus:spendthrift
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References
- “wastegood” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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