[f. as prec.]
1. a. Of persons: Given to squander; spending lavishly or extravagantly.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. xxx. 134. My wife … Shall not ywis be bused by the squandring Pollo so.
1668. Wilkins, Real Char., II. i. § 5. 42. Transcendental relations of Action…. Squandring, lavish, profuse.
1708. King, Cookery, Wks. 1776, III. 78. Squandering of wealth, impatient of advice.
1845. Disraeli, Sybil (1863), 53. All was certain;… the oaks [had not] to tremble at the axe of the squandering heir.
b. Of conduct, etc.: Characterized by extravagant expenditure.
1726. Bolingbroke, Study Hist., viii. Wks. 1754, II. 472. The reign of false and squandering policy … will finally compleat our ruin.
1849. Craig, Squanderingly, in a squandering manner.
2. Straying, straggling; spreading abroad. Now dial.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., II. vii. 57. The Wise-mans folly is anathomiz’d Euen by the squandring glances of the foole.
1854–. in dial. glossaries (Nhp., Leics., Rutland).
1866. N. & Q., 3rd Ser. X. 27. It’s a squandering farm; a field here and a field there; it don’t lie together.
1886. S. W. Linc. Gloss., 140. It’s a very squandering place.
Hence Squanderingly adv.
1847. in Webster.
