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English
Etymology
Blend of spare + change, from stereotyped phrase “spare change?”, “ spare any change?”
Pronunciation
Verb
spange (third-person singular simple present spanges, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)
- (US, intransitive) To beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”
- 1996, Tim “Salvage”, quoted in Ian Fisher, “Erin’s looking for Leg-Rub Steve. Fly’s looking for CD’s to steal. Star’s looking for Jaya. And it’s starting to get cold.”
- I don’t spange much because I really don’t like doing it. I eat out of trash cans a lot.
- 2009, Kelly Myers, 33, quoted in Joe Deegan, “Nowhere To Go”, San Diego Reader
- Then my father would send all us kids out to ‘spange’ . You could sometimes make $50 a day by spanging. Other days you might make a dollar.
Usage notes
Often used to refer to one’s own activities, without pejorative sense. Compare spanger, often used pejoratively to refer to others.
Derived terms
References
- Word Watch, The Atlantic, April 1997, by Anne H. Soukhanov, executive editor of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.
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