Spanged vs Sponged - What's the difference?
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(spang)
(spange)
(obsolete) A shiny ornament or object; a spangle
* Spenser
(of a flying object such as a bullet) To strike or ricochet with a loud report
* 1895 , (Stephen Crane), (The Red Badge of Courage)
* 1918 , (Zane Grey), The U.P. Trail
(dated) Suddenly; slap, smack.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
(intransitive, dialect, UK, Scotland) To leap; spring.
* Ramsay
(transitive, dialect, UK, Scotland) To cause to spring; set forcibly in motion; throw with violence.
(sponge)
(countable) Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera , that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
(countable) A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 (uncountable) A porous material such as sponges consist of.
(informal) A heavy drinker.
(countable, uncountable) A type of light cake; sponge cake.
(countable, uncountable, British) A type of steamed pudding.
(slang) A person who takes advantage of the generosity of others (abstractly imagined to absorb or soak up the money or efforts of others like a sponge).
(countable) A form of contraception that is inserted vaginally; a .
Any spongelike substance.
# Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven.
# Iron from the puddling furnace, in a pasty condition.
# Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked.
A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
The extremity, or point, of a horseshoe, answering to the heel.
(slang) To take advantage of the kindness of others.
* L'Estrange
To get by imposition; to scrounge.
* , chapter=13
, title= To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition.
* South
To clean, soak up, or dab with a sponge.
To suck in, or imbibe, like a sponge.
To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of.
To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast or leaven.
As verbs the difference between spanged and sponged
is that spanged is (spang) while sponged is (sponge).spanged
English
Verb
(head)spang
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- With glittering spangs that did like stars appear.
Etymology 2
OnomatopoeiaVerb
(en verb)- Occasional bullets buzzed in the air and spanged into tree trunks.
- How clear, sweet, spanging the hammer blows!
Adverb
(-)- 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)- But when they spang o'er reason's fence, / We smart for't at our own expense.
Etymology 4
See (span)References
* *Anagrams
*sponged
English
Verb
(head)sponge
English
("sponge" on Wikipedia)Noun
citation, passage=She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge , which she placed on a chair.}}
Synonyms
* (marine invertebrate) sea sponge, bath sponge, poriferan, porifer * (piece of porous material used for washing) bath sponge * (light cake) sponge cake * (type of steamed pudding) sponge pudding * (person) freeloader, spongerDerived terms
* breadcrumb sponge * demosponge * sea sponge * spongey * sponge bath * sponge cakeSee also
* foamVerb
(spong)- The fly is an intruder, and a common smell-feast, that sponges upon other people's trenchers.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- (Jonathan Swift)
- How came such multitudes of our nation to be sponged of their plate and their money?
- (Hooker)
