"spendthrift" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈspɛn(d)θɹɪft/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈspɛn(d)ˌθɹɪft/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-spendthrift.ogg [Australia] Forms: more spendthrift [comparative], most spendthrift [superlative]
Etymology: spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*terp-}}, {{compound|en|spend|thrift|t2=(archaic) savings; profits; wealth}} spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} spendthrift (comparative more spendthrift, superlative most spendthrift)
  1. Improvident, profligate, or wasteful. Categories (topical): People, Personality Translations (improvident, profligate, or wasteful): مُسْرِف (musrif) (Arabic), مُبَذِّر (mubaḏḏir) (Arabic), разточителен (raztočitelen) (Bulgarian), прахоснически (prahosničeski) (Bulgarian), 挥霍无度 (huīhuòwúdù) (Chinese Mandarin), utrácivý (Czech), rozmařilý (Czech), ødsel (Danish), verkwistend (Dutch), spilziek (Dutch), verspillend (Dutch), tuhlaavainen (Finnish), dépensier (French), prodigue (French), desbaldidor [masculine] (Galician), desbaldidora [feminine] (Galician), verschwenderisch (German), פַּזְרָן (Hebrew), költekező (Hungarian), pazarló (Hungarian), ចាយវាយ (caayviəy) (Khmer), раси́пнички (rasípnički) (Macedonian), ധൂർത്തൻ (dhūṟttaṉ) [masculine] (Malayalam), خَراج (fa) (Persian), تَلَفکار (Persian), gastador (Portuguese), расточительный (rastočitelʹnyj) (Russian), pródigo (Spanish), manirroto (Spanish), müsrif (Turkish), savurgan (Turkish), çarçurcu [informal] (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-spendthrift-en-adj-jsQKSHpo Disambiguation of People: 66 0 34 1 Disambiguation of Personality: 75 2 18 5 Categories (other): English exocentric verb-noun compounds Disambiguation of English exocentric verb-noun compounds: 27 26 25 22 Disambiguation of 'improvident, profligate, or wasteful': 91 9
  2. Extravagant or lavish. Translations (extravagant, lavish): hojný (Czech), opulentní (Czech), ylenpalttinen (Finnish), pazar (Hungarian), buyangyang (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-spendthrift-en-adj-dNb3IOtg Categories (other): English exocentric verb-noun compounds Disambiguation of English exocentric verb-noun compounds: 27 26 25 22 Disambiguation of 'extravagant, lavish': 23 77

Noun

IPA: /ˈspɛn(d)θɹɪft/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈspɛn(d)ˌθɹɪft/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-spendthrift.ogg [Australia] Forms: spendthrifts [plural]
Etymology: spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*terp-}}, {{compound|en|spend|thrift|t2=(archaic) savings; profits; wealth}} spend + thrift (“(archaic) savings; profits; wealth”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} spendthrift (plural spendthrifts)
  1. Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully. Categories (topical): Money Translations (someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully): مُبَذِّر (mubaḏḏir) [masculine] (Arabic), مُسْرِف (musrif) [masculine] (Arabic), прахосник (prahosnik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 敗家仔 (Chinese Cantonese), 败家仔 (baai⁶ gaa¹ zai²) (Chinese Cantonese), 敗家子 (Chinese Mandarin), 败家子 (bàijiāzǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 浪子 (làngzǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), якатмӑш (jak̬atmăš) (Chuvash), hýřil [masculine] (Czech), rozmařilec [masculine] (Czech), marnotratník [masculine] (Czech), raharaiskaja (Estonian), tuhlari (Finnish), tuhluri (Finnish), tuhlaaja (Finnish), hassaaja [colloquial] (Finnish), dépensier (French), gaspilleur (French), prodigue (French), Verschwender [masculine] (German), Verschwenderin [feminine] (German), Prasser [masculine] (German), Prasserin [feminine] (German), σπάταλος (spátalos) (Greek), eyðslukló [feminine] (Icelandic), spendaccione [masculine] (Italian), 使い手 (tsukaite) (alt: つかいて) (Japanese), 浪費家 (rōhika) (alt: ろうひか) (Japanese), 極道 (gokudō) (alt: ごくどう) (Japanese), prōflīgātor [masculine] (Latin), consumptor [masculine] (Latin), ра́сипник (rásipnik) [masculine] (Macedonian), dêpensyi [masculine] (Norman), gaspilleux [masculine] (Norman), saccageux [masculine] (Norman), trébuque-bein [masculine] (Norman), ولخرج (velxarj) (Persian), Spendobbel [neuter] (Plautdietsch), rozrzutnik [masculine] (Polish), gastador [masculine] (Portuguese), gastadora [feminine] (Portuguese), gastadeira [feminine] (Portuguese), расточи́тель (rastočítelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), мот (mot) [masculine] (Russian), транжи́р (tranžír) [masculine] (Russian), распикућа [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), raspikuća [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), gastador [masculine] (Spanish), gastadora [feminine] (Spanish), pródigo [masculine] (Spanish), manirroto (Spanish), spenderbyxa [common-gender] (Swedish), slösare [common-gender] (Swedish), labusak (Tagalog), müsrif (Turkish), savurgan (Turkish), arungún (Yoruba), àpà (Yoruba)
    Sense id: en-spendthrift-en-noun-oQw4d9jB Disambiguation of Money: 5 6 57 32 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English exocentric verb-noun compounds Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 6 45 44 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 6 6 45 44 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 7 7 43 43 Disambiguation of English exocentric verb-noun compounds: 27 26 25 22 Disambiguation of 'someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully': 97 3
  2. (figuratively) Anything that distributes its attributes profusely, without restraint. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-spendthrift-en-noun-8WnlZ8m0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English exocentric verb-noun compounds Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 6 45 44 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 6 6 45 44 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 7 7 43 43 Disambiguation of English exocentric verb-noun compounds: 27 26 25 22
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: spender, wanton Derived forms: spendthrift trust, spendthriftily, spendthriftiness, spendthrifty Related terms: prodigality
Synonyms: big spender, dingthrift [obsolete], neve [rare], overspender, prodigal, profligate, saprophage, scattergood [obsolete], slipstring [obsolete], slipthrift [obsolete], sparkler [dated], spend-all [dated], spendthrift, splurge, splurger, squanderer, unthrift [rare], waster, wastegood [obsolete], wastethrift [obsolete], wastrel [dated]

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1621, attributed to Thomas Heywood or John Cooke, A Pleasant Conceited Comedy, wherein is Shewed, how a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad. As It hath been Sundry Times Acted by the Earle of Worcesters Seruants, London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot] for Mathew Law, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church yard, neere vnto S. Augustines gate, at the signe of the Foxe, →OCLC",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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 posessed, in our riper age.",
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          "ref": "2009, Grant Hayter-Menzies, “Preface”, in Mrs. Ziegfield: The Public and Private Lives of Billie Burke, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, page 3",
          "text": "Billie Burke's career and life often twined together in this manner – so many of her roles called on her to play parts that were fragments of her real life: the sought-after young stage beauty, the wronged wife, the spendthrift matriarch of bankrupt wealth, the woman too old to be acting so young.",
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          "ref": "2004, Ethan Mordden, “The Great Tradition”, in The Happiest Corpse I’ve Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-five Years of the Broadway Musical, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, page 6",
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      "word": "tightwad"
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          "ref": "1621, attributed to Thomas Heywood or John Cooke, A Pleasant Conceited Comedy, wherein is Shewed, how a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad. As It hath been Sundry Times Acted by the Earle of Worcesters Seruants, London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot] for Mathew Law, and are to be sold at his shop in Paules church yard, neere vnto S. Augustines gate, at the signe of the Foxe, →OCLC",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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 posessed, in our riper age.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "text": "Billie Burke's career and life often twined together in this manner – so many of her roles called on her to play parts that were fragments of her real life: the sought-after young stage beauty, the wronged wife, the spendthrift matriarch of bankrupt wealth, the woman too old to be acting so young.",
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          "ref": "2004, Ethan Mordden, “The Great Tradition”, in The Happiest Corpse I’ve Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-five Years of the Broadway Musical, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, page 6",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2017-09-09",
          "text": "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.",
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      "word": "مُسْرِف"
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      "word": "مُبَذِّر"
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      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "разточителен"
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      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "прахоснически"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "huīhuòwúdù",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "挥霍无度"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "utrácivý"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "rozmařilý"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "ødsel"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "verkwistend"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "spilziek"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "verspillend"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "tuhlaavainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "dépensier"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "prodigue"
    },
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "desbaldidor"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "desbaldidora"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "verschwenderisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "פַּזְרָן"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "költekező"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "pazarló"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "caayviəy",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "ចាយវាយ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "rasípnički",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "раси́пнички"
    },
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      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "dhūṟttaṉ",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ധൂർത്തൻ"
    },
    {
      "code": "prs",
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      "roman": "fa",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "خَراج"
    },
    {
      "code": "prs",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "تَلَفکار"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "gastador"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rastočitelʹnyj",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "расточительный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "pródigo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "manirroto"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "müsrif"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "word": "savurgan"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
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      "sense": "improvident, profligate, or wasteful",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "çarçurcu"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "extravagant, lavish",
      "word": "hojný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "extravagant, lavish",
      "word": "opulentní"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "extravagant, lavish",
      "word": "ylenpalttinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "extravagant, lavish",
      "word": "pazar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "extravagant, lavish",
      "word": "buyangyang"
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}

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      "word": "miser"
    },
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      "word": "skinflint"
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      "word": "cheapskate"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
      "word": "niggard"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
      "word": "tightwad"
    },
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      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
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      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
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      "word": "spender"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
      "word": "wanton"
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Warren G. Bovée, “Democratic Promise, Democratic Reality, and the Journalists”, in Discovering Journalism (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications; no. 56), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISSN, pages 79–80",
          "text": "[T]emperate people choose neither total abstinence nor perpetual indulgence, but something in between; liberal people are neither spendthrifts nor misers; the properly angry are neither apathetic nor short-tempered; and the strictly just person distributes to everyone what is his or her due, neither more nor less.",
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      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
      "word": "big spender"
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      "tags": [
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      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
      "tags": [
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      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
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    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
      "word": "profligate"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
      "word": "saprophage"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
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    {
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
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      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
      "word": "splurger"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
      "word": "squanderer"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:spendthrift",
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      "code": "ar",
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      "roman": "mubaḏḏir",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مُبَذِّر"
    },
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "musrif",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مُسْرِف"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "prahosnik",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "прахосник"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "敗家仔"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "baai⁶ gaa¹ zai²",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "败家仔"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "敗家子"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bàijiāzǐ",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "败家子"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "làngzǐ",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "浪子"
    },
    {
      "code": "cv",
      "lang": "Chuvash",
      "roman": "jak̬atmăš",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "якатмӑш"
    },
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hýřil"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rozmařilec"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "marnotratník"
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      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "raharaiskaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "tuhlari"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "tuhluri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "tuhlaaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "hassaaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "dépensier"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "gaspilleur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "prodigue"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Verschwender"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Verschwenderin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Prasser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Prasserin"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "spátalos",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "σπάταλος"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "eyðslukló"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "spendaccione"
    },
    {
      "alt": "つかいて",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "tsukaite",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "使い手"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ろうひか",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "rōhika",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "浪費家"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ごくどう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gokudō",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "極道"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prōflīgātor"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "consumptor"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "rásipnik",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ра́сипник"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dêpensyi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gaspilleux"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "saccageux"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "trébuque-bein"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "velxarj",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "ولخرج"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Spendobbel"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rozrzutnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gastador"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gastadora"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gastadeira"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rastočítelʹ",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "расточи́тель"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mot",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мот"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tranžír",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "транжи́р"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "распикућа"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "raspikuća"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gastador"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gastadora"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pródigo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "manirroto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "spenderbyxa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "slösare"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "labusak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "müsrif"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "savurgan"
    },
    {
      "code": "yo",
      "lang": "Yoruba",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "arungún"
    },
    {
      "code": "yo",
      "lang": "Yoruba",
      "sense": "someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully",
      "word": "àpà"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spendthrift"
}

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