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wastethrift

wastethrift noun: a spendthrift.

Noun

wastethrift (plural wastethrifts)

  1. (obsolete) A spendthrift.
    • My adversary evermore twits me with my nephew, forsooth, my nephew: why may not a virtuous uncle have a dissolute nephew? What though he be a brotheller, a wastethrift, a common surfeiter, and, to conclude, a beggar, must sin in him call up shame in me?1608, Thomas Middleton, A Trick to Catch the Old One, act 2, scene 1; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 2, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 20
    Synonyms:
    wastegood

Synonyms of wastethrift

Forms of wastethrift

pluralwastethrifts

Origin of wastethrift

From waste + thrift.

Questions about wastethrift

What does wastethrift mean?
Wastethrift means a spendthrift.
What part of speech is wastethrift?
Wastethrift is a noun.
What is the plural of wastethrift?
The plural of wastethrift is wastethrifts.

Words near wastethrift in the dictionary

  1. wastes time
  2. wastest
  3. wastestream
  4. wastestreams
  5. wasteth
  6. wastethrift
  7. wastethrifts
  8. wastetime
  9. wastetimes
  10. wastewater
  11. wastewaters

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