What does stroygood mean?
Stroygood means (obsolete) A wasteful person..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) A wasteful person..
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.
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Stroygood means (obsolete) A wasteful person..
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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.
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