waste-good
waste-good is the alternative form of wastegood.
Meaning of wastegood
Noun
wastegood (plural wastegoods)
- A spendthrift.
- This firſt, whom by his careleſſe ſlovenly gate, at firſt ſight, I imagined to be a Poet, is a waſte good and an unthrift, that he is born to make the taverns rich, and himſelfe a begger[…]1592, Robert Greene, edited by Collier, John Payne, A Qvip for an Vpstart Courtier, reprint edition, published 1870, page 67
- Synonyms:
- scattergood, wastethrift
Forms of waste-good
| plural | waste-goods |
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Questions about waste-good
- What is waste-good the alternative form of?
- Waste-good is the alternative form of wastegood.
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