单词 | spender |
释义 | † spendern.1 Obsolete. A steward. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > head servant or house steward stewardc1000 spencea1300 spender1340 spencerc1380 maître d'hôtel1540 major-domo1589 dapifer1636 khansama1645 sirkar1772 maître d'1942 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 190 He..het his desspendoure þet he him yeaue uyftene pond of gold. Þe spendere be his couaytise ne yeaf bote vyf. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 190 Þo he clepede his spendere and him acsede hou moche he hedde y-yeue to þe kniȝte. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 468/2 Spendare, dispensator. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). spendern.2 1. One who spends; spec. one who spends lavishly or wastefully, a spendthrift. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] > squanderer or prodigal waster1352 spender1393 fool-large?c1425 neve1440 stroyc1440 strawer1460 scapethrifta1500 prodigal son (also daughter, child)1508 nephew1532 scatterer1535 stroy-good1540 prodigal1547 spend-all1553 dingthrift1566 stroy-all1573 scattergood1577 slip-thrift1579 waste-good1585 slide-thrifta1591 spendthrift1601 unthrifta1602 prodiga1605 spend-good1605 wastethrift1608 prodigal1609 lavisher1611 squanderer1611 decoctor1615 profuser1616 extravagant1745 dissipater1799 wastrel1887 squander-bug1943 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > one who spends spender1393 disburser1611 expender1804 brosier1850 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [noun] > spendthrift spender1393 fool-large?c1425 neve1440 scapethrifta1500 nephew1532 bankrupt1533 scatterer1535 spend-all1553 dingthrift1566 gillian spend-all1573 scattergood1577 slip-thrift1579 waste-good1585 slide-thrifta1591 spendthrift1601 spend-good1605 wastethrift1608 extravagant1745 dissipater1799 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vi. 28 An ydel man þow semest, A spendour þat spende mot oþer a spille-tyme. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) vi. xvi He is a greete spender of his lordes good and catel. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 468/2 Spendare in waast, prodigus. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 114 Ye saye that she ys prudente and a ware spender and dysposer of goodes. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vi. sig. Iv Ye are calde..to great a spender. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. F1v They would let so vnprofitable a spender starue. 1620 T. Granger Syntagma Logicum 200 Of Spenders there are two sorts, some are Prodigall, some Liberall. 1670 R. Graham Angliæ Speculum Morale 90 She is commonly a most extravagant spender. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 174 An industrious..man..is richer, in my eye, than a spender with thousands. 1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. 16 Money is of no value: it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender. 1883 American 6 217 Very rich men in England are much freer spenders than they are here. 2. One who, or that which, consumes, employs, or uses up; a consumer or waster of something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [noun] > one who or that which uses up spender1565 expender1804 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Consumptor, a spender, consumer, or waster. 1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xviii. sig. L1v I will put away this sleepy Humour, for it is an extreame spender. 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 85 Queen Elizabeth..was pleased to term Plays the harmless Spenders of time. 1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit i, in Tale of Tub 296 To prevent Perspiration, than which nothing is observed to be a greater Spender of Mechanick Light. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Spender, a consumer. A ‘small spender’ is a person who has very little appetite. 3. Tanning. A pit in which the bark is leached. Also attributive in spender pit. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with skins or hides > [noun] > where bark is leached spender1882 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 382/2 The method of leaching commonly adopted in the United Kingdom is to pass the bark through a series of leachers or spender pits. 1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) iv. 61 When the material in No. 1 is spent, it is cast and filled with fresh bark, and becomes the best leach,..No. 2 becoming the spender. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11340n.21393 |
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