[f. as prec.] One who squanders or spends extravagantly.
1611. Cotgr., Sacre,… a spendall, vnthrift, squanderer.
1656. Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., I. xix. (1674), 20. By giving past number or measure, they deserve rather to be esteemed foolish squanderers, than vertuously Liberal.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, IV. 369. This would … instruct him … to avoid being a Squanderer or Waster.
1791. Cowper, Odyss., XIV. 117. Witness how fast the squanderers use his wine.
1863. Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., xvi. 406. Squanderers and gamblers have no sense of justice.
transf. c. 1830. Landor, Prose Pieces, Wks. 1846, II. 465. Far differently ought we to estimate the squanderers of human blood, and the scorners of human tears.
