slipstring

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
17
Letters
10

Definition of slipstring

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)A wastefully extravagant person; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From slip + string.

Anagrams of slipstring

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