WORD FOR THE DAY: WASTREL

[Louis Foxwell]

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

wastrel - wey-struh l

hear it pronounced

noun

Definition:

1: a wasteful person; spendthrift; prodigal
2. an idler or vagabond
3: one who expends resources foolishly and self-indulgently : profligate

Origin of WASTREL

"spendthrift, idler," 1847, from waste (v.) + pejorative suffix -rel.

First Known Use: circa 1841

Synonyms:

fritterer, high roller, profligate, spender, spendthrift, squanderer, waster, prodigal

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[left that other site]

Why thank you, FRiend! :-)

[Louis Foxwell]

Nailed it.

Third Place

[Louis Foxwell]

You got it.

limerick award

[Louis Foxwell]

This is too nice.

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[RikaStrom]

Wastrels; seen wailing.
To spend, not their money,
But yours, for the children!

Eh, not a perfect haiku. :-)

[Louis Foxwell]

But a nice try.

[MoochPooch]

Apparently wastrel doesn’t just apply to money, but to produce. Unless they create scarcity:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3297191/posts

[tioga]

[NeoCaveman]

Will a house seat in Illinois be wasted on the son of a wastrel or can Flynn overcome son of LaThug?

[secret garden]

Funny! I have never camped and plan to keep the streak alive.

[Texan5]

Work went late after lunch yesterday, and I did an estimate this morning-

Obama acts just like a wastrel-
Plays golf and thumbs his nose
At us-taking OUR taxes for trips
And Michelle buys ugly clothes

He tells us not to use energy
From oil, or all will be lost-
Each vaca he takes burns a week
Worth of energy out the exhaust

Jimmy Carter was pretty clueless
But at least when he made a fuss
He turned down the heat in the WH
And didn’t act more equal than us...

[Texan5]

When I got home from doing an estimate, I turned on the TV to see some news, and a cathedral full of people were mourning at the funeral Mass for Biden’s son who died of cancer-that was at about 11am. I turned off the TV, went about my business-turned it on an hour later, and there were generals giving speeches and awarding medals to the deceased-I thought he was a JAG officer-you would have thought some head of state had died-I half expected the pope to show up and canonize him right there.

Perhaps I’m being insensitive, but what is the point of all that public demonstration of grief, complete with Obama playing a role? I realize the man was too young to die, but is all that really considered tasteful or necessary?

[Louis Foxwell]

Excellent and on point.

[Texan5]

Thank you!

[secret garden]

I saw it as an opportunity to polish obama’s image. I don’t believe he wrote the eulogy he read, but it was a very nice one.

[Texan5]

That is no doubt true-he is cynical enough to make even an occasion like that all about him, if he can-but it still seemed to me to be somewhat in bad taste-reminded me of that democrat/Wellstone funereally-all it lacked was the political speeches and cheering.

[Cowman]

WASTREL: someone who is no longer unable to have children

[Louis Foxwell]

lemme get this strait.
The “someone” you mention was unable to have children but is now no longer unable to have children. They are therefor a wastral.
Don’t get it. Elucidate me.

[Cowman]

Someone who was sterile — I thought this was a bit more obvious than “one who stopped washing with surgical scrub.” Punny lines are my specialty after all.

[Louis Foxwell]

Sometimes I am so slow snails and turtles leave me in their wake. I even tried googling the word. Really very funny. I have been saving this for just such an occasion.

First Place