Stroygood
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Stroygood is a noun meaning (obsolete) A wasteful person.
Meaning
(obsolete) A wasteful person.
Example Sentences
A Drunkard is a meer stroy-good.
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[…]
Word Forms
- stroygoods
- stroy-good
- stry-good
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wastegood, wastethrift, wastrel, saprophage, wasteyute, wastour.
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