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spange | spang |

As nouns the difference between spange and spang

is that spange is clasp, bracelet, brooch while spang is a narrow bridge for one walking person (not wide enough for two to meet), a log bridge.

spange

English

Verb

  • (US) to beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”

    • Usage notes

    Often used to refer to one’s own activities, without pejorative sense. Compare spanger, often used pejoratively to refer to others.

    Quotations

    * 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.”“ 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,” Ian Fisher, December 8, 1996, The New York Times *: 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[http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/oct/14/city-light-2/ Nowhere To Go, by Joe Deegan, San Diego Reader, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 *: Then my father would send all us kids out to ‘spange ’ [beg for spare change]. You could sometimes make $50 a day by spanging. Other days you might make a dollar.

    Derived terms

    * spanger * spanging

    References

    * Word Watch, The Atlantic, April 1997, by Anne H. Soukhanov, executive editor of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.

    spang

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A shiny ornament or object; a spangle
  • * Spenser
    • With glittering spangs that did like stars appear.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set with bright points: star or spangle.
  • To hitch; fasten.

    • Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeia

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a flying object such as a bullet) To strike or ricochet with a loud report
  • * 1895 , (Stephen Crane), (The Red Badge of Courage)
    • Occasional bullets buzzed in the air and spanged into tree trunks.
  • * 1918 , (Zane Grey), The U.P. Trail
    • How clear, sweet, spanging the hammer blows!

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (dated) Suddenly; slap, smack.
  • * 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
    • And I didn't stop until I found myself spang in the middle of the Musée de Cluny, clutching the rack.

    Etymology 3

    Probably from (spring) (verb) or (spank) (verb)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive, dialect, UK, Scotland) To leap; spring.
  • * Ramsay
    • But when they spang o'er reason's fence, / We smart for't at our own expense.
  • (transitive, dialect, UK, Scotland) To cause to spring; set forcibly in motion; throw with violence.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A bound or spring; a leap.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    Etymology 4

    See (span)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) A span.

    • References

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