This week’s theme
Tosspot words

This week’s words
lackwit
dingthrift
turnkey
nipcheese
scattergood

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PRONUNCIATION:

(DING-thrift)

MEANING:

noun: One who is wasteful and reckless with money or resources.

ETYMOLOGY:

From ding (to damage), from Old English dingan (to ding) + thrift (prosperity), from Old Norse thrifast (to thrive). Earliest documented use: 1566. A synonym is spendthrift.

USAGE:

“Some dingthrifts talk of pulling down the universities and selling off their lands like the monasteries.”
Diane Davidson; Feversham; Crown Publishers; 1969.

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