slipstring

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Obsolete

"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."
"Goinfre: m. A wag, ſlipſtring, knaviſh lad; a merrie conceited whoreſonne, a notable good fellow, an excellent companion."
"Well, slip-string, I shall meet with you."

From slip + string.

slipstrings (plural)

spendthrift

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