Stroygood

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A wasteful person. obsolete

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From stroy (“to destroy”) + good.

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