wastegood

English

Alternative forms

• waste good, waste-good

Etymology

waste +‎ good

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• scattergood, wastethrift; See also Thesaurus:spendthrift

Anagrams

• Gatewoods

Scots

Alternative forms

• waistgude

Etymology

waste +‎ good

Noun

wastegood (plural wastegoods)

1. (obsolete) A spendthrift.

References

• “wastegood” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.