wastegood

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English

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From waste +‎ good.

Noun

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wastegood (plural wastegoods)

  1. (obsolete) A spendthrift.
    • 1592, Robert Greene, edited by Collier, John Payne, A Qvip for an Vpstart Courtier, reprint edition, published 1870, page 67:
      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, Thomas Nash, Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuell[1]:
      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 []
    • 1621, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Anything for a Quiet Life, act 2, scene 3; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton[2], volume 4, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 450:
      Give my waste-good your stuffs, and go with my cousin, sir; he'll presently despatch you.

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waste +‎ good

Noun

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wastegood (plural wastegoods)

  1. (obsolete) A spendthrift.

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