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Meaning of stroygood | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A wasteful person.

obsolete

Examples

“To this same Turret up they went, and there with syghes behilld / The Oxen lying every where stark dead uppon the feelde / And eeke the cruell stroygood with his bluddy mouth and heare.”
“[…]If I should destroy and pull down those things which my predecessors have built and ordained, I should not be called a builder and maker, but justly accounted a stroy-good and puller down[…]”
“A Drunkard is a meer stroy-good.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Strozier strozzapreti Strømme syndrome Struan Strub Strube

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