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spange

verb
/speɪnd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Blend of spare + change, from stereotyped phrase “spare change?”, “[can you] spare any change?”

  1. derived from change
  2. inherited from change
  3. derived from *kambos✻
  4. derived from cambion
  5. derived from cambio
  6. derived from cambiāre
  7. derived from changier
  8. inherited from changen
  9. compounded as spange — “spare + change”

Definitions

  1. To beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for spange. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA