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unthrift en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ʌnˈθɹɪft/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English unthrift, equivalent to un- + thrift.
Meanings
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Unthrifty.
VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]
1637, Thomas Heywood, The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject. […], London: […] Nich[olas] and John Okes, for James Becket, […], →OCLC, Act III, signature E4, verso:
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unthriftness
unthrift en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈʌnθɹɪft/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English unthrift, equivalent to un- + thrift.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A lack of thriftiness; prodigality.
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(archaic, countable, uncountable) Someone who is not thrifty; a spendthrift, someone who is not careful with their money.
But name not Winter-faces, whose skin's slacke;
Lanke, as an unthrifts purse ...
1633, John Donne, The Autumnall:My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
But my learning is of another degree
c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend ...
1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 9”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
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