wastry
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wastry (uncountable)
- (Scotland, Northern England) Extravagance, wastefulness.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 136:
- Syne Chae had the toddy made and he handed a glass to Ewan first, as was right with a man, and another to Chris, with three spoonfuls of sugar in it, Mistress Strachan might have had something to say about that if she'd seen such wastry.
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wastry (comparative more wastry, superlative most wastry)