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stroygood en · NOUN

Etymology

From stroy (“to destroy”) + good.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A wasteful person.
   • 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. 1567, Golding, Arthur, transl., Metamorphoses, book 11, translation of original by Ovid, lines 392–394:
   • […]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[…] c. 1563–1570, John Foxe, “Answer of the Prelates to the Lord Peter's Oration Before Philip, the French King”, in Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, editor, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, volume 2, London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, published 1837, page 632:
   • A Drunkard is a meer stroy-good. 1712, Increase Mather, Wo to Drunkards, 2nd edition, Boston: Timothy Green, page 11:

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