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Spunge vs Spange - What's the difference?

spunge | spange |

As nouns the difference between spunge and spange

is that spunge is (obsolete) a sponge while spange is clasp, bracelet, brooch.

As a verb spunge

is (obsolete) to sponge.

spunge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) a sponge.

    • Verb

    (spung)
  • (obsolete) to sponge.

    • Anagrams

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    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.