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wastegood

wastegood noun: a spendthrift.

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
    • Ayoong Heyre or Corkney, that is his Mothers Darling, if he haue playde the waste-good at the Innes of the Court or about London, and that neither his Students pension, nor his vnthrifts credite will serue to maintaine his Collidge of whores any longer[…]1592, Thomas Nash, Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuell

Synonyms of wastegood

Forms of wastegood

pluralwastegoods
alternative formwaste good
alternative formwaste-good

Origin of wastegood

From waste + good.

Questions about wastegood

What does wastegood mean?
Wastegood means a spendthrift.
What part of speech is wastegood?
Wastegood is a noun.
What is the plural of wastegood?
The plural of wastegood is wastegoods.

Words near wastegood in the dictionary

  1. wastegal
  2. wastegals
  3. wastegash
  4. wastegate
  5. wastegates
  6. wastegood
  7. wastegoods
  8. wasteground
  9. wastegrounds
  10. wasteheap
  11. wasteheaps

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