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Meaning of wastegood | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A spendthrift.

obsolete

Examples

“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[…]”
“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[…]”
“Give my waste-good your stuffs, and go with my cousin, sir; he'll presently despatch you.”

CEFR level

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

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