How to pronounce“spendthrift”in English
You know, there are some famous examples of horders whose homes got so filled with crap that they actually died from it. There's a famous brother -- the Collyer brothers
the Tightwad Spendthrift Scale. And it was developed by three behavioral economists at Carnegie Mellon. And they surveyed 13,000 people and found
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Definitions of “spendthrift”
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.”
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.”
Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.
“[T]hat vve vvould doe / VVe ſhould doe vvhen vve vvould: for this vvould changes, / And hath abatements and delayes as many, / As there are tongues, are hands, are accedents, / And then this ſhould is like a ſpend thrifts ſigh, / That hurts by eaſing; […]”
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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