Dictionary

slipstring en · NOUN

Etymology

From slip + string.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A wastefully extravagant person; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
   • Goinfre: m. A wag, ſlipſtring, knaviſh lad; a merrie conceited whoreſonne, a notable good fellow, an excellent companion. 1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page GOI-GON:
   • Well, slip-string, I shall meet with you. 1619, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, A King and No King, act 2, scene 2; republished in The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1843, page 270:
   • Every promise that thou therein dost utter, / Is as sure as it were sealed with butter, / Or a mouse tyed with a threed. Every good thing / Thou lettest even slip, like a waghalter slipstring. 1546, John Heywood, chapter VII, in Julian Sharman, editor, The Proverbs of John Heywood, London: George Bell and Sons, published 1874, pages 147–148:

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Synonyms

spendthrift