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Definition: Spendthrift |
SpendthriftAdjective1. Recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures". Noun1. Someone who spends money prodigally. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "spendthrift" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Spendthrift The Danish thrift is the noun of the word thrive (to increase or prosper). Shakespeare says, "I have a mind presages me such thrift" (increase, profit). As our frugal ancestors found saving the best way to grow rich, they applied the word to frugality and careful management. A spendthrift is one who spends the thrift or saving of his father, or, as Old Adam says, the "thrifty hire I saved." (As You Like It.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: SpendthriftSynonyms: extravagant (adj), prodigal (adj), profligate (adj), spend-all (n), spender (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Loquacity | Phrase: the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels; all talk and no cider; "foul whisperings are abroad"; "what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!". |
Prodigality | Prodigal; spendthrift, waste thrift; losel, squanderer, locust; high roller. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Spendthrift |
| English words defined with "spendthrift": Dingthrift ♦ Scattergood, Slipthrift, Spendthrifty ♦ Wastethrift. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "spendthrift": FOOL ♦ spendthrift provision. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "spendthrift": Dingthrift. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Spendthrift (1936) The Spendthrift (1922) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Kingston, by Spendthrift - dam imp. Kapanga. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Jean De La Bruyere | The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself. |
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| "Spendthrift" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 84.00% of the time. "Spendthrift" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 84% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "spendthrift": spendthrift trust. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spendthrift | 16 |
spendthrift trust | 13 |
farm spendthrift | 6 |
charter spendthrift | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "spendthrift"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | xhymert (generous), xhepshpuar (impecunious), prishanik (extravagant, prodigal, spender, thriftless), dorëshpuar (spender, thriftless, wastrel), dorëhapur (bounteous, open handed). (various references) | |
Arabic | مبذر (extravagant, lavish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, squanderer, thriftless, wasteful), المبذر (waster, wastrel). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разточителен (extravagant, improvident, lavish, luxurious, prodigal, profligate, profuse, sumptuous, superfluous, thriftless, uneconomic, unsparing, unthrifty, wanton, wasteful), разточител (spender, squanderer, wanton, waster), прахосник (prodigal, profligate, scatter-good, spender, squanderer, waster). (various references) | |
Chinese | 敗家子 (prodigal, wastrel). (various references) | |
Czech | marnotratník (squanderer), hýřil (rioter). (various references) | |
Dutch | vonnis van ondercuratelestelling (legal decision depriving a spendthrift or a lunatic of control over his estate). (various references) | |
Farsi | مسرف (Prodigal), ولخرج (Prodigal, Profligate, Wasteful), خراج (Gavel, Levy, Tax, Tribute), دست ودلباز. (various references) | |
Finnish | tuhlaaja. (various references) | |
French | gaspilleur, de prodigalité, dépensier (spender). (various references) | |
German | Verschwender (prodigals, profligates, squanderer, squanderers). (various references) | |
Greek | σπάταλοσ (improvident, prodigal, squanderer, thriftless, unstinted, waste, wasteful, waster, wastrel). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פזרן (squanderer), בזבזן (spender, squanderer, wastrel). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tékozló (extravagant, lavish, lavisher, lavishing, prodigal, squanderer, wasteful, wasting), pazarló (lavish, lavisher, lavishing, prodigal, squanderer, squandering, thriftless, to go the pace, unsparing, unthrifty, wasteful, waster, wasting, wastrel). (various references) | |
Italian | spendaccione, prodigo (extravagant, flush, lavish, prodigal, thriftless, unsparing), dissipatore (squanderer). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 使い手 (consumer, employer, master, prodigal, user). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つかいて (consumer, employer, master, prodigal, user). (various references) | |
Manx | stroialtagh (big spender, destructive, prodigal, wasteful), streel (drab, fancy woman, loiterer, lounger, scamp, stroller, vagabond, vamp, vamp woman), baarailagh (extravagant). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | endthriftspay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pródigo (extravagant, large, lavish, prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unsparing, unthrifty, wanton), perdulário (chappie, prodigal, spender, thriftless), indivíduo gastador. (various references) | |
Romanian | risipitor (dissipated, extravagant, improvident, luxurious, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spender, squanderer, thriftless, wasteful), om cheltuitor, cheltuitor (dissipated, extravagant, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spender, squanderer, thriftless, wasteful, waster). (various references) | |
Russian | расточительный (extravagant, improvident, lavish, prodigal, profligate, thriftless, unsparing, unthrifty, wasteful), расточитель (spender, squanderer, waster, wastrel), мот (spender). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rasipnik (profligate, spender, waster, wastrel), rasipnički (uneconomical, wasteful). (various references) | |
Spanish | pródigo (extravagant, lavish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, unsparing, wasteful), derrochador (extravagant, ofligates, profligate, wastrel). (various references) | |
Swedish | slösare (prodigal, profligate, spender, squanderer, waster, wastrel). (various references) | |
Turkish | mirasyedi, müsrif (consumptive, extravagant, improvident, inefficient, lavish, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spender, squander, squanderer, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | марнотратний (expensive, extravagant, improvident, lavish, luxurious, pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, unsparing, wasteful), марнотаратник. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vung tay quá trán, người ăn tiêu hoang phí. (various references) | |
Welsh | gwastraffwr (waster). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spendthrift": spendthrifts. (additional references) | |
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"Spendthrift" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: spenthrift. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "spendthrift" (pronounced spe"ndthri'ft) |
| 3 | -i' f t | airlift, facelift, forklift, makeshift, shoplift, uplift. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-h-i-n-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: redshift, sprinted, strident, thirsted, tridents. | |
-4 letters: dentist, dipnets, distent, dithers, finders, fishnet, fitters, friends, fritted, hinders, hinters, hipster, hitters, nerdish, pettish, pinders, presift, printed, pterins, redfins, redfish, refinds, retints, shifted, shifter, shrined, snifter, spirted, spitted, spitter, stinted, stinter, stipend, striped, thrifts, tinders, tinters, tipster, titfers, tithers, trident. | |
-5 letters: depths, diners, dipnet, direst, dither. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-h-i-n-p-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: spendthrifts. | |
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