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† ˈwaste-good Obs.
[f. waste v. + good n. (sense 7). Cf. scatter-, spend-, stroy-good.]
A spendthrift.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 523/2 Barathro,..a spend all: a waste-good. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse B 2 b, If hee haue playde the waste-good at the Innes of the Court. a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxvi. (1640) 69 The worldly-minded man, though hee live in better reputation on Earth, hath no better reputation in Heaven than the waste-good. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 1295 A waste-good, or spend-all, Nepos, decoctor. |
