Slipthrift

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A spendthrift. obsolete

    "Especially must I guard my young preaching brother against imitating the studied carelessness and slipthrift manner of a certain type of dandies."

  2. 2
    A gambling game that was invented in the early 1500s, similar to shuffleboard but played with coins on a board, and which was more commonly called shovegroat. obsolete

    "What to dooe there? To bowle, or to plaie at dise, or cardes, penipricke, or slipthrift."

Synonyms

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prodigalprofligatespendthriftwaster

Antonyms

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miser

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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."

Etymology

From slip + thrift.

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