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waste good

waste good is the alternative form of wastegood.

Meaning of wastegood

Noun

wastegood (plural wastegoods)

  1. (obsolete) 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

Forms of waste good

pluralwaste goods

Questions about waste good

What is waste good the alternative form of?
Waste good is the alternative form of wastegood.

Words near waste good in the dictionary

  1. waste disposals
  2. waste fellow
  3. waste fellows
  4. waste gate
  5. waste gates
  6. waste good
  7. waste goods
  8. waste land
  9. waste lands
  10. waste no time
  11. waste not, want not

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