单词 | misspend |
释义 | misspendv. transitive. To spend badly, wastefully, or inappropriately; to make a bad, useless, or wasteful expenditure of. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > squander [verb (transitive)] forspendc893 scatter1154 dispend1303 waste1340 misspendc1390 miswastec1400 consumec1425 waste1474 profund1527 lasha1535 prodige1538 lavish1542 to play away1562 riot1566 embezzle1578 dilapidate1590 squander1593 confound1598 to make ducks and drakes of or withc1600 prodigalize1611 profuse1611 squander1611 paddle1616 bezzle1617 to run out of ——1622 to piss away1628 prodigal1628 decoct1629 to bangle (away)1632 debauch1632 deboise1632 to fribble away1633 to fool out1635 to run outa1640 to fiddle away1667 slattera1681 dissipate1682 to play off1693 duck-and-drake1700 liquidate1702 sparkle away1703 waster1821 befool1861 to frivol away1866 to play (at) duck and drake with1872 to fling away1873 mislive1887 slather1904 mucker1928 profligate1938 peter1956 spaff2002 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [verb (transitive)] > mis-spend misspenec1300 dispend1303 misspendc1390 misdispenda1393 bespend1567 c1390 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 166 Merci þat I haue mis-spent Mi wittes fyue! c1450 W. Lichefeld Complaint of God (Lamb. 853) 237 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 207 I haue myspendid my ȝong age In synne, & wantownesse. c1480 (a1400) St. Pelagia 44 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 205 Scho þat welth & þat beute myspendit in sic degre, þat [etc.]. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxx. f. lxxxxvii Gouernours therof mysspent the Patrymony therof, in Excesse. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 638/1 Myspende nat your monay, you may happe to have nede of it. 1597 Pilgrimage Parnassus (1886) v. 19 I have beene guiltie of mispending some time in philosophie. c1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 419 More thousands to debosh and mispend nor [etc.]. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. d1v Some similitude, which diverts..your attention from the main Subject, and mispends it on some trivial Image. a1721 M. Prior On Pretty Madwoman i Our grief's misplac'd, our tears mis-spent. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones I. i. iii. 10 I should grossly mispend my Time in writing so voluminous a Work. View more context for this quotation 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xxvii. 21 His early youth, mispent in maddest whim. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vi. 15 [They] vowed to accept no benefice, lest they should misspend the property of the poor. 1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux I. xiii. 109 Not a penny had been misspent by the Finnites. 1952 Amer. Hist. Rev. 57 309 He did not misspend time and energy in the futile attempt to establish ‘fundamental causes’. 1992 Entrepreneur Mar. 53/1 The travelholic doesn't necessarily misspend the company's money on first-class air. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1390 |
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