gaspiller

to waste

“J'ai gaspillé énormément d’argent, je suis loin de me poser en victime ; j’aurais mauvaise grâce.” — I have squandered money enormously...

Related: gaspillage, gaspilleur

Inherited from Middle French gaspiller (“to waste”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a modification of Middle French gaspailler (“to throw back, reject bullets of wheat”), from Old French gaspail, vaspale (“bullet of wheat”) (compare Medieval Latin gaspalium; Old Northern French waspail (“chaff”), from Frankish *wispila (“measure of grain”), from Proto-Germanic *wisp- (“measure of grain”). Akin to Middle Dutch and Middle Low German wispel; Norwegian visp; English wisp (“handful or bundle of hay or