单词 | squandermania |
释义 | squandermanian. colloquial. An insane desire or obsession to spend money recklessly or to waste assets. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [noun] > insane desire to squandermania1920 squanderlust1935 1920 Public Opinion 2 July 3/1 The public are deeply roused upon the Squandermania issue. 1921 Edinb. Rev. July 198 The spirit of ‘squandermania’ is in fact of quite recent date. 1931 Punch 4 Nov. 481/1 The triumph of Reason over Squandermania. 1956 Sun (Baltimore) 14 June (ed. B) 16/2 They think that people who support the provision of some military aid to our allies are ‘soft’ and afflicted with ‘squandermania’. 1976 Times 16 Aug. 11/5 Sheer ‘squander-mania’..has currently invaded our society. Derivatives squanderˈmaniac adj. and n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [adjective] > having insane desire to spend squandermaniac1921 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [noun] > spendthrift > one having insane desire to spend squandermaniac1921 1921 Glasgow Herald 2 Apr. 7 The burden imposed upon him [sc. the tax-payer] by a ‘Squandermaniac’ Government. 1922 Public Opinion 10 Mar. 228/1 The real squandermaniac would be revealed in the man with an infinite capacity for standing at street corners. 1933 C. Mackenzie Water on Brain vii. 85 There cheek by jowl sat the squandermaniac and the suicidal junior clerk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1920 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。