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slipthrift

noun

Etymology

From slip + thrift.

  1. derived from þrift
  2. inherited from thrift
  3. compounded as slipthrift — “slip + thrift”

Definitions

  1. A spendthrift.

    • Especially must I guard my young preaching brother against imitating the studied carelessness and slipthrift manner of a certain type of dandies.

  2. A gambling game that was invented in the early 1500s, similar to shuffleboard but played…

    A gambling game that was invented in the early 1500s, similar to shuffleboard but played with coins on a board, and which was more commonly called shovegroat.

    • What to dooe there? To bowle, or to plaie at dise, or cardes, penipricke, or slipthrift.

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