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English
Etymology
From Middle English unthrift, equivalent to un- + thrift.
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /ˈʌnθɹɪft/
- (adjective) IPA(key): /ʌnˈθɹɪft/
Noun
unthrift (countable and uncountable, plural unthrifts)
- A lack of thriftiness; prodigality.
- (now rare) Someone who is not thrifty; a spendthrift, someone who is not careful with their money.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
- My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,
For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;
But my learning is of another degree
To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.
1633, John Donne, The Autumnall:But name not Winter-faces, whose skin's slacke;
Lanke, as an unthrifts purse ...
Adjective
unthrift (comparative more unthrift, superlative most unthrift)
- Unthrifty.
1637, Thomas Heywood, The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject. , London: Nich and John Okes, for James Becket, , →OCLC, Act III, signature E4, verso:VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]
Middle English
Etymology
un- + thrift
Noun
unthrift (plural unthrifts)
- A vice; an immoral act.
- Unthriftiness, profligacy.
- An unthrifty person; a wastrel.
Descendants