unthrift

Noun

unthrift (countable and uncountable, plural unthrifts)

1. A lack of thriftiness; prodigality.
2. (archaic) Someone who is not thrifty; a spendthrift, someone who is not careful with their money.
   • My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
     For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
     But my learning is of another degreec. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
   • Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend ...1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 9”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

Adjective

IPA/ʌnˈθɹɪft/

unthrift (comparative more unthrift, superlative most unthrift)

1. Unthrifty.
   • VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]1637, Thomas Heywood, The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject. […], London: […] Nich[olas] and John Okes, for James Becket, […], →OCLC, Act III, signature E4, verso