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Scap(e)thrift, n. [Scape v. and thrift.] A spendthrift; a ne'er-do-well. — c1615 Breve Cron. Earlis Ross 11.
He gatherit a power of wickit scapthriftis, alias reivars and sorneris, and with the same … beseigit the castell 1630-1651 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 27.
Accompanied with a number of scapethrifts and rebells, as the historie calleth them
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