subs. (old).—A prodigal, spendthrift, WASTEGOOD (q.v.).

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  1590.  GOLDING, Cæsar, fol. 76. A great multitude of UNTHRIFTS and cut throtes.

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  [?].  TAVERNER, Adagies, A. 8b. UNTHRYFTES do gather together with UNTHRIFTES, and good fellowes, with such as be good fellowes, and so forthe.

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  1598.  JONSON, Every Man in his Humour, iii. 7. If he were an UNTHRIFT, a ruffian, a drunkard, or a licentious liver, then you had reason.

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  1597.  SHAKESPEARE, Richard II., ii. 3.

                    My rights and royalties
Pluck’d from my arms perforce, and given away
To upstart UNTHRIFTS?
    Ibid. (1598), Sonnets, ix.
  Look, what an UNTHRIFT in the world doth spend,
Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it.

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