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stroygoods

stroygoods is the plural 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

Questions about stroygoods

What is stroygoods the plural of?
Stroygoods is the plural of stroygood.

Words near stroygoods in the dictionary

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

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