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stroy-good

stroy-good is the alternative form of stroygood.

Meaning of stroygood

Noun

stroygood (plural stroygoods)

  1. (obsolete) A wasteful person.
    • 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.1567, Golding, Arthur, transl., Metamorphoses, book 11, translation of original by Ovid, lines 392–394

Forms of stroy-good

pluralstroy-goods

Questions about stroy-good

What is stroy-good the alternative form of?
Stroy-good is the alternative form of stroygood.

Words near stroy-good in the dictionary

  1. strowls
  2. strown
  3. strows
  4. Stroxton
  5. stroy
  6. stroy-good
  7. stroy-goods
  8. stroyed
  9. stroygood
  10. stroygoods
  11. stroying

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