| 释义 |
spend-all Now rare.
Also spendall, spend all.
[f. spend v.1 + all n.]
One who spends all his goods, money, etc.; one who is prodigal, wasteful, or too free in expenditure; a spendthrift.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 123, I call a notable flatterer, a faire spoken manne:..a spende-all, a liberall gentleman. 1566Drant Horace, Sat. i. ii. A viij, Teschue, and shun the name Of spendall, and of scatter good. 1609W. M. Man in Moon (1849) 29 Thy wife shall be enamored of some spend-all, which shall wast all as licentiously as thou hast heaped together laboriously. 1655R. Younge Charge agst. Drunkards 4 Drunkards are not onely lazie get-nothings; but they are also riotous spend-alls. 1708Brit. Apollo I. No. 5. 3/1 A Sot, a Spend-all, a Gamester. 1870Macm. Mag. July 168/1 A lounging upper world of spend-alls and do-nothings. 1896M. Beaumont Joan Seaton 114, I like a thrifty man, he doesn't backen himself like a spend-all.
transf.1583B. Melbancke Philotimus A iij, By your folly spendall is your store consumed, and by your God the sendall it may be restored. |