What does unthrift mean?
Unthrift means A lack of thriftiness; prodigality..
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/ˈʌnθɹɪft/ · noun
A lack of thriftiness; prodigality..
My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree
Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend ...
But name not Winter-faces, whose skin's slacke; Lanke, as an unthrifts purse ...
VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]
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Unthrift means A lack of thriftiness; prodigality..
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My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; But my learning is of another degree
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