slipstring
English
Etymology
slip + string
Noun
slipstring (plural slipstrings)
- (obsolete) A wastefully extravagant person; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
- 1546, Heywood, John, chapter VII, in Sharman, Julian, editor, The Proverbs of John Heywood, London: George Bell and Sons, published 1874, pages 147–148:
- Every promise that thou therein dost utter, / Is as sure as it were sealed with butter, / Or a mouse tyed with a threed. Every good thing / Thou lettest even slip, like a waghalter slipstring.
- 1611, Cotgrave, Randle, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, page GOI-GON:
- Goinfre: m. A wag, ſlipſtring, knaviſh lad; a merrie conceited whoreſonne, a notable good fellow, an excellent companion.
- 1619, Beaumont, Francis; Fletcher, John, A King and No King, act 2, scene 2; republished in The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1843, page 270:
- Well, slip-string, I shall meet with you.
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Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:spendthrift
Anagrams
- Striplings, split-rings, striplings