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stroygood

stroygood noun: a wasteful person.

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
    • […]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[…]c. 1563–1570, John Foxe, “Answer of the Prelates to the Lord Peter's Oration Before Philip, the French King”, in Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, editor, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, volume 2...

Forms of stroygood

pluralstroygoods
alternative formstroy-good
alternative formstry-good

Origin of stroygood

From stroy (“to destroy”) + good.

Questions about stroygood

What does stroygood mean?
Stroygood means a wasteful person.
What part of speech is stroygood?
Stroygood is a noun.
What is the plural of stroygood?
The plural of stroygood is stroygoods.

Words near stroygood in the dictionary

  1. Stroxton
  2. stroy
  3. stroy-good
  4. stroy-goods
  5. stroyed
  6. stroygood
  7. stroygoods
  8. stroying
  9. stroys
  10. Strozier
  11. Stroziers

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