One cup of prepared regular couscous has 176 calories, compared to 227 calories in whole-grain couscous and about 210 calories in brown and white rice. Regular couscous has 6 grams of protein, while whole-grain couscous has 9 grams.
(Redirected from Profligate) For the horse, see Spendthrift (horse). For the 1936 film, see Spendthrift (film). A spendthrift (also called profligate) is someone who spends money prodigiously and who is extravagant and recklessly wasteful, often to a point where the spending climbs well beyond her or his means.
1540s, to bind, connect; 1660s, to put under moral obligation, back-formation from obligation, or else from Latin obligatus, past participle of obligare (see oblige). Oblige, with which it has been confused since late 17c., means to do one a favor.