Citations:spendicitis

Noun: "(humorous) excessive spending viewed as a medical disorder"

 * 1904, Official Journal of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, Volume 18, page 493:
 * If you have spendicitis, put a padlock upon your purse, for it is better to starve to death than to live a spendthrift.
 * 1949, We, the People: The Yearbook of Public Opinion, Paebar Company (1949), page 174:
 * The way taxes, licenses and truck fees have been boosted in California the past year, it appears our representatives have been afflicted with a very bad case of spendicitis.
 * 1998, House of Commons Debates, Issues 50-58, page 3462:
 * This spendicitis kind of puts a twist in them when they answer questions and they just cannot get out those words "l am a taxaholic, l suffer from spendicitis and l just cannot say the words tax relief."
 * 2006, Lyman Rose, Winning the War Againist Debt: Managing Your Personal Finances to Eliminate Debt, CFI (2006), ISBN 9781555179908, page ix:
 * This can cause spendicitis. This disease warps your brain into thinking that if your credit card still clears a transaction, you'll probably have enough money to cover it . . . someday.
 * 2013, J. A. Mangan, "Prologue: Guarantees of Global Goodwill: Post-Olympic Legacies – Too Many Limping White Elephants?", in Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended: Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational (eds. J. A. Mangan, Mark Dyreson), Routledge (2013), ISBN 9780415550161, page xxv:
 * Another aspect of the 2012 Olympics that has worried some observers is the amount of National Lottery money that will be diverted from good causes to help feed the Olympocrats' severe attack of spendicitis.
 * 2014, Romain D. Huret, American Tax Resisters, Harvard University Press (2004), ISBN 9780674281370, page 173:
 * With the optimistic slogan, “From the kitchen to the Capitol in one week,” they hoped to spark a massive movement of resistance against the postwar liberal leviathan and the “acute spendicitis” of policymakers in the nation.