wastegood
English
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Etymology
Noun
wastegood (plural wastegoods)
- (obsolete) A spendthrift.
- 1592, Robert Greene, edited by Collier, John Payne, 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, Thomas Nash, Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuell[1]:
- 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, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Anything for a Quiet Life, act 2, scene 3; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton[2], 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.
Synonyms
- scattergood, wastethrift; See also Thesaurus:spendthrift
Anagrams
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
wastegood (plural wastegoods)
- (obsolete) A spendthrift.
References
- “wastegood”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 June 2018, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.