One who lives in idleness and extravagance; one who wastefully dissipates or consumes his resources, an extravagant spender, a squanderer…
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| 释义 | the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > squanderer or prodigal (37) waster1352 One who lives in idleness and extravagance; one who wastefully dissipates or consumes his resources, an extravagant spender, a squanderer… spender1393 One who spends; spec. one who spends lavishly or wastefully, a spendthrift. fool-large?c1425 A spendthrift; a wasteful person. neve1440 A spendthrift. rare. stroyc1440 One who destroys; a wasteful person. dialect. strawer1460 One who ‘straws’ or squanders. scapethrifta1500 A spendthrift. prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508 Of a person: that has lived a reckless or extravagant life away from home, but subsequently made a repentant return. Also more generally and figur… nephew1532 In extended use: a prodigal. Obsolete. rare. scatterer1535 One who scatters, in the senses of the verb. Also, something which scatters; a device for broadcasting seed. stroy-good1540 a destructive or wasteful person. prodigal1547 A person who spends money extravagantly and wastefully; a spendthrift. Now rare. spend-all1553 One who spends all his goods, money, etc.; one who is prodigal, wasteful, or too free in expenditure; a spendthrift. dingthrift1566 A person who is wasteful, reckless, or extravagant with money or resources; a profligate person, a spendthrift. rare after 17th cent. (historical and… stroy-all1573 scattergood1577 One who dissipates or squanders goods or possessions; a spendthrift. slip-thrift1579 shovel-board; a spendthrift; cf. slide-thrift, n. waste-good1585 A spendthrift. slide-thrifta1591 A spendthrift. spendthrift1601 One who spends money profusely or wastefully; one who wastes his patrimony by foolish or lavish expenditure; an improvident or extravagantly… unthrifta1602 An unthrifty (†unthriving), shiftless, or dissolute person; a spendthrift, prodigal. prodiga1605 = prodigal, n.; a reckless or extravagant person. Also figurative. rare. spend-good1605 A spend-all, spendthrift. wastethrift1608 A spendthrift. prodigal1609 A person who is wasteful of money, a resource, possession, asset, etc. Also figurative. Now rare and poetic. lavisher1611 one who lavishes. squanderer1611 One who squanders or spends extravagantly. decoctor1615 One who wastes or squanders; a ruined spendthrift. profuser1616 A person who or thing which gives or spends lavishly. extravagant1745 One who exceeds the bounds of moderation in expenditure, expensive living, etc.; a wasteful person, a spendthrift. Obsolete. dissipater1799 One who or that which dissipates, disperses, or scatters; one that squanders or wastes. wastrel1887 A wasteful person, a spendthrift. squander-bug1943 A symbol of reckless extravagance and waste, first used in government publicity campaigns to promote economy during the war of 1939–45 and… Subcategories:— of something specified (1) — thriftless person (3) |
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