slipthrift

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spendthrift. obsolete
    — 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 with coins on a board, and which was more commonly called shovegroat. obsolete
    — What to dooe there? To bowle, or to plaie at dise, or cardes, penipricke, or slipthrift.

词形变化

slipthrifts plural

词源

From slip + thrift.
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