stroygood

English

Alternative forms

stroy-good, stry-good

Etymology

stroy (“to destroy”) +‎ good

Noun

stroygood (plural stroygoods)

(obsolete) A wasteful person.
- 1567, Golding, Arthur, transl., Metamorphoses‎, book 11, translation of original by Ovid, lines 392–394:
  To this same Turret up they went, and there with syghes behilld / The Oxen lying every where stark dead uppon the feelde / And eeke the cruell stroygood with his bluddy mouth and heare.
- c. 1563–1570, Foxe, John, “Answer of the Prelates to the Lord Peter's Oration Before Philip, the French King”, in Cattley, Rev. Stephen Reed, editor, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, volume 2, London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, published 1837, page 632:
  […] If I should destroy and pull down those things which my predecessors have built and ordained, I should not be called a builder and maker, but justly accounted a stroy-good and puller down […]
- 1712, Mather, Increase, Wo to Drunkards, 2nd edition, Boston: Timothy Green, page 11:
  A Drunkard is a meer stroy-good.

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