## Etymology
A compound of spend + thrift, originally meaning one who spends his savings; spend is from Old English spendan (from Latin expendere), and thrift is from Old Norse þrift ('prosperity').

## AI Etymology
Spendthrift is a compound of spend + thrift, originally meaning one who spends his savings; spend is from Old English spendan (from Latin expendere), and thrift is from Old Norse þrift ('prosperity'). The compound structure is semantically important: one element narrows the setting, direction, or quality, and the other supplies the object, action, or base idea. As a noun and adjective, it denotes "a person who spends money wastefully and extravagantly", keeping the historical idea close to its dictionary sense. Relevant historical forms include Old English spendan and Old Norse þrift. Related words include spend, thrift.

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