Definition of "unthrift"

unthrift

/ˈʌnθɹɪft/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural unthrifts
1. A lack of thriftiness; prodigality.
2. (now rare) Someone who is not thrifty; a spendthrift, someone who is not careful with their money.
  Quotations
  My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught,For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught;But my learning is of another degreeTo taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.
  c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
  Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend ...
  1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 9”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley
  But name not Winter-faces, whose skin's slacke;Lanke, as an unthrifts purse ...
  1633, John Donne, The Autumnall
adjective
comparative more unthrift, superlative most unthrift
1. Unthrifty.
  Quotations
  VVots thou vvho's returnd, / The unthrift Bonvile, ragged as a ſcarre-crovv / The VVarres have gnavv'd his garments to the skinne: […]
  1637, Thomas Heywood, The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject. […], London: […] Nich[olas] and John Okes, for James Becket, […], Act III, signature E4, verso