Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wasteful ness; prodigality.
- Wasteful; improvident.
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- noun Scotland
Extravagance ,wastefulness .
Etymologies
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From waste + -ery.
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Examples
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On our part La Hire and Xaintrailles plundered, for their own hand, the lands of the Duke of Burgundy, and indeed on every side there was no fair fighting, such as the Maid loved, but a war of wastry, the peasants pillaged, and the poor held to ransom.
A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878
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Oh, my little rogue, my pretty bird! well, then, it shall have a new coral, it shall -- Now, Madam, pray you look on this piece of wastry!
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"I hae plenty o 'ways o' spen'in ''t," she said, "withoot wastry.
Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald 1864
uselessness commented on the word wastry
noun. The day-old donut shunned by the office. If left out, wastries have the tendency to disappear eventually, but no one is able to explain how.
January 4, 2007