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Spange vs Spangle - What's the difference?

spange | spangle |

As verbs the difference between spange and spangle

is that spange is to beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?” while spangle is to sparkle, flash or coruscate.

As a noun spangle is

a small piece of sparkling metallic material sewn on to a garment as decoration; a sequin.

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.

    spangle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small piece of sparkling metallic material sewn on to a garment as decoration; a sequin.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
    • , passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}
  • Any small sparkling object.
  • * (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
    • the rich spangles that adorn the sky

    Verb

    (spangl)
  • To sparkle, flash or coruscate.
  • To fix spangles to; to adorn with small, brilliant bodies.
  • * Shakespeare
    • What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty?

    See also

    * Spangles (British boiled sweet )