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slipstring

noun

Etymology

From slip + string.

  1. derived from *strengʰ-✻ — “rope, cord, strand; to tighten”
  2. inherited from *strangiz✻ — “string”
  3. inherited from *strangi✻
  4. inherited from strenġ
  5. inherited from string
  6. compounded as slipstring — “slip + string”

Definitions

  1. A wastefully extravagant person

    A wastefully extravagant person; a prodigal; a spendthrift.

    • 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.
    • Goinfre: m. A wag, ſlipſtring, knaviſh lad; a merrie conceited whoreſonne, a notable good fellow, an excellent companion.
    • Well, slip-string, I shall meet with you.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA