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stry-good

stry-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 stry-good

pluralstry-goods

Questions about stry-good

What is stry-good the alternative form of?
Stry-good is the alternative form of stroygood.

Words near stry-good in the dictionary

  1. Struves
  2. struvite
  3. struvites
  4. Struzzieri
  5. Struzzieris
  6. stry-good
  7. stry-goods
  8. stryacocephalid
  9. stryacocephalids
  10. strychnate
  11. strychnates

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