a. and sb. Sc. Also wasteriff. [f. WASTE a.: cf. cauldrife, waukrife.] a. adj. Wasteful, extravagant. b. sb. Wastefulness, extravagance.
a. 1822. Scott, Nigel, v. Do not slit the quill up too high, it’s a wastrife course.
1873. Routledge’s Young Gentl. Mag., May, 365/2. The old housekeeper, who always declared Master Jacob was so wasteriff with his goods, that he would certainly come to beggary some day.
b. 1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxviii. She confessed afterwards, that, ‘besides the wastrife, it was lang or she could walk sae comfortably with the shoes as without them.’
