wastethrift

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wastethrift

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From waste + thrift.

noun wastethrifts

obsolete A spendthrift. My adversary evermore twits me with my nephew, forsooth, my nephew: why may not a virtuous uncle have a dissolute nephew? What though he be a brotheller, a wastethrift, a common surfeiter, and, to conclude, a beggar, must sin in him call up shame in me?
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@misc{wastethrift_2026,
  title = {wastethrift},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wastethrift},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}