carved wooden figure / puppet / useless person

to spend, to consume / to waste, to squander

manufacture

production

many years

(used with negatives) for a long time

many years / a long lifespan

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend