What does slipthrift mean?
Slipthrift means (obsolete) A spendthrift..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) A spendthrift..
Especially must I guard my young preaching brother against imitating the studied carelessness and slipthrift manner of a certain type of dandies.
What to dooe there? To bowle, or to plaie at dise, or cardes, penipricke, or slipthrift.
Shovegroat or slidegroat, slideboard, slidethrift, or slipthrift, are sports occasionally mentioned by writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and, acccording to Strutt, were probably analogous to the modern pastime called Justice Jervis, which is confined to common pot-houses, and only practised by such as frequent tap-rooms.
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Slipthrift means (obsolete) A spendthrift..
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Especially must I guard my young preaching brother against imitating the studied carelessness and slipthrift manner of a certain type of dandies.
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