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wastegoods

wastegoods is the plural 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

Questions about wastegoods

What is wastegoods the plural of?
Wastegoods is the plural of wastegood.

Words near wastegoods in the dictionary

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

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