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wastery

wastery is the alternative form of wastry.

Meaning of wastry

Noun

wastry (uncountable)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) Extravagance, wastefulness.
    • Syne Chae had the toddy made and he handed a glass to Ewan first, as was right with a man, and another to Chris, with three spoonfuls of sugar in it, Mistress Strachan might have had something to say about that if she'd seen such wastry.1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 136
    Synonyms:
    wastery

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What is wastery the alternative form of?
Wastery is the alternative form of wastry.

Words near wastery in the dictionary

  1. wastepiles
  2. wasteproof
  3. waster
  4. wasterful
  5. wasters
  6. wastery
  7. wastes
  8. wastes away
  9. wastes breath
  10. wastes of oxygen
  11. wastes of skin

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