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wastry ‎(uncountable)

(Scotland, Northern England) Extravagance, wastefulness.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 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.

wastry ‎(comparative more wastry, superlative most wastry)