prodigal
PROD-ih-guladjMeaning carelessly wasteful with money or other resources
Memory hook PROD the GOLD out the door. Rich Rosa prods her gold coins right out the door with a broom, spending on anything that glitters; anyone that wasteful is prodigal.
The prodigal young heir spent his whole fortune on racehorses in a single year.
In context Having been prodigal with his allowance all summer, buying every comic and candy bar in sight, Jonah had nothing left when the county fair finally came to town.
Similar wasteful, lavish, spendthrift, excessive
Opposite thrifty, frugal, careful
From Latin prodigus, “wasteful,” from prodigere, “to drive away, to squander”: pro- (forth) + agere (to drive).