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spendthrift

adj
/ˈspɛn(d)θɹɪft/UK/ˈspɛn(d)ˌθɹɪft/US

Etymology

From spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”).

  1. derived from þrift
  2. inherited from thrift
  3. compounded as spendthrift — “spend + thrift”

Definitions

  1. Improvident, profligate, or wasteful.

    • Wel, go to wild oats, ſpend thrift prodigal, / Ile croſſe thy name quight from my reckning booke: / For theſe accounts, faith it ſhall ſcath thee ſome what, / I will not ſay what, ſomewhat it ſhall be.
    • Powerful feelings and generous designs are, alas! too like the inheritance of a miser in the hands of some spendthrift heir—lavished away on trifles in our early years, and needed, but not possessed, in our riper age.

  2. Extravagant or lavish.

    • Rufus's stone lies in the outskirts of the forest, and in a few minutes they emerged upon the broad heath which bounds it, then like a sea of gold; for the furze was in the first glory of its spendthrift wealth.
    • A high-powered entertainment that acceded to the spiraling capitalization costs of the big musical with a production of spendthrift command, La Cage [aux Folles] came in at summer's end as a guaranteed hit.
    • This feels like a significant league title in more ways than one. It is now 14 years since Roman Abramovich emerged as an spendthrift presence in west London.

  3. Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

    • VVell goe too vvild oates, ſpend thrift, prodigall, / Ile croſſe thy name quite from my reckoning booke: / For theſe accounts, faith it ſhall skathe thee ſomevvhat, / I vvill not ſay vvhat ſomevvhat it ſhall be.
    • Prodigue, & grand beuveur de vin n'a du ſien ne four, ne moulin: Pro. The drunken ſpendthrift vvaſts his beſt poſſeſſions.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Anything that distributes its attributes profusely, without restraint.

      • It was one of those bright days in spring, which are very spendthrifts of sunshine, when the darkest alley in London wins a golden glimpse, and the eternal mist around St. Paul's turns to a glittering haze:...

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Derived

spendthrift clause, spendthriftily, spendthriftiness, spendthriftism, spendthriftness, spendthrift provision, spendthrift trust, spendthrifty

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA