Spane vs Spange - What's the difference?
spane | spange |
(US) to beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”
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As verbs the difference between spane and spange
is that spane is to wean; to spean while spange is to beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”.spange
English
Verb
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 * spangingReferences
Word Watch, The Atlantic, April 1997, by Anne H. Soukhanov, executive editor of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.