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Spange vs Spanger - What's the difference?

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Spange is a related term of spanger.


As nouns the difference between spange and spanger

is that spange is clasp, bracelet, brooch while spanger is .

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.

    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