spangeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /speɪnd͡ʒ/
• 韻: -eɪndʒ

動詞

spange (三人称単数 現在形 spanges, 現在分詞 spanging, 過去形および過去分詞形 spanged)

1. (US, intransitive) To beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”
   • 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.”^[1]

     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^[2]

     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.

使用する際の注意点

Often used to refer to one’s own activities,^[1][2] without pejorative sense. Compare spanger, often used pejoratively to refer to others.

派生語

• spanger
• spanging

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