Now rare. Also spendall, spend all. [f. SPEND v.1 + ALL sb.] One who spends all his goods, money, etc.; one who is prodigal, wasteful, or too free in expenditure; a spendthrift.
1553. T. Wilson, Rhet. (1580), 123. I call a notable flatterer, a faire spoken manne:… a spende-all, a liberall gentleman.
1566. Drant, Horace, Sat., I. ii. A viij. Teschue, and shun the name Of spendall, and of scatter good.
1609. W. M., Man in Moon (1849), 29. Thy wife shall be enamored of some spend-all, which shall wast all as licentiously as thou hast heaped together laboriously.
1655. R. Younge, Agst. Drunkards, 4. Drunkards are not onely lazie get-nothings, but they are also riotous spend-alls.
1708. Brit. Apollo, I. No. 5. 3/1. A Sot, a Spend-all, a Gamester.
1870. T. Hughes, in Macm. Mag., July, 168/1. A lounging upper world of spend-alls and do-nothings.
1896. Mary Beaumont, Joan Seaton, 114. I like a thrifty man, he doesn’t backen himself like a spend-all.
transf. 1583. Melbancke, Philotimus, A iij. By your folly spendall is your store consumed, and by your God the sendall it may be restored.
