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Sanger vs Spanger - What's the difference?

sanger | spanger |

As nouns the difference between sanger and spanger

is that sanger is a sandwich while spanger is beggar, one who uses the phrase “spare change?”.

As a proper noun Sanger

is {{surname|from=occupations}.

sanger

English

Etymology 1

Diminutive of sandwich; corruption of the earlier diminutive sango. Australian from 1960s.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, informal, colloquial) A sandwich.
  • * 1996 , , 2006, page 140,
    • I popped the last of the strawberry sangers into my mouth, craned my neck over the bureaucrat?s gelati-hued shoulder and feasted my eyes.
  • * 2005 , R. T. Stone, The Journals: Into the Gulf , Book 2, page 459,
    • Allison did most of the talking telling Sara of her victory, of meeting Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova—who won the Family Circle Open—of rubbing the elbows with the Australian elite, and making sangers (sandwiches) for broken families in Brisbane.
  • * 2009 , Justine Vaisutis, Australia , Lonely Planet, page 94,
    • Eat' Rock oysters, rock lobsters, yabbies and prawns; also Turkish bread ‘' sangers ’ and Tim Tam shooters
  • * 2009 , Central Australia: Adelaide to Darwin , page 59,
    • Winning pub-grub at this enduring pub boozer: steak sangers , veggie lasagne, lamb-shank pie, king-prawn salad and blueberry pancakes.
    Synonyms
    * sango (qualifier) * sarnie (qualifier)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1895 , United States Cavalry Association, Journal of the United States Cavalry Association , Volume 8, page 223,
    • The enemy had a line of sangers' along the far edge of nullah right across the valley, with ' sangers at intervals up the steep mountains on either side into the snows, and occupied, as far as we could guess, by some 2,000 men.
  • * 1902 , Great Britain House of Commons, Sessional Papers , Volume 69, page 64,
    • At 4.30 a.m., under cover of a mist in the donga, the Boers made a very severe attack on the north and west of my position, the brunt of the attack fell on two sangers' held by the Durham Company of Artillery; the Boers broke through the wire and got to within 20 yards of those ' sangers , but they both gallantly held their own and I, with the aid of the Maxim, was able to repulse the attack.
  • * 1976 , Byron Farwell, The Great Boer War , page 93,
    • the Boer marksmen leaned over their sangers and fired on the helmeted heads below them.

    Anagrams

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    spanger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, pejorative) beggar, one who uses the phrase “spare change?”
  • * 2007 , Pam Hogeweide, Spangers and Song on Hawthorne] :[http://godmessedmeup.blogspot.com/2007/11/spangers-and-song-on-hawthorne.html Spangers and Song on Hawthorne, by Pam Hogeweide, November 2007
  • *:I squatted down on the sidewalk to get eye level with the spanger (someone who asks passerbys for spare change).

    • Usage notes

    While sometimes used neutrally, more often used pejoratively, The Plague of Professional Panhandling], August 26, 2008, by Steven Malanga, The Dallas Morning News[http://www.newser.com/story/37926/panhandlers-more-often-pros-than-cons.html Panhandlers More Often Pros Than Cons: It's a full-time gig for some, and cities make little headway with efforts to stop begging], by Kate Schwartz, Newster, Sep 22, 2008[http://questionland.portlandmercury.com/questions/3494-what-can-we-do-about-spangers What can we do about spangers?], The Portland Mercury, [http://questionland.portlandmercury.com/ Questionland][http://wsbradio.com/localnews/2009/03/atl-giving-meters-program-off.html Atlanta ‘Giving Meters’ Program off to Slow Start, by Jay Black, WSB News, March 28, 2009 with connotations of professional begging.

    Related terms

    * spange * spanging

    References