Definitions For Spange

Verb

{{en-verb}} (US, intransitive) 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.

Derived terms

spanger spanging

References

, The Atlantic, April 1997, by Anne H. Soukhanov, executive editor of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.

Etymology

spare, spare change?”, “[can you] spare any change?”/">change, from stereotyped phrase “spare change?”, “[can you] spare any change?”

Anagrams

paseng, pegans