Wastethrift

Now rare. [f. WASTE v. + THRIFT sb.¹] A spendthrift.

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1608. Middleton, Trick to Catch Old One, I. iii. B 2. Hee’s a rioter, a wast-thrift, a brothell-maister.

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1611. Beaum. & Fl., Knt. Burn. Pestle, I. iii. (1613), C 3. Thou art a wast-thrift, and art run away from thy maister.

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1868. H. Brandreth (title), Wastethrifts and Workmen. Of the mode of producing them, and their relative value to the community.

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1886. Pall Mall Gaz., 5 Feb., 2/1. Let him, as a wholly useless and absolutely dangerous criminal wastethrift, be deprived altogether either of freedom or of life.

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