different between spange vs spangle

English

Etymology

Blend of spare +? change, from stereotyped phrase “spare change?”, “[can you] spare any change?” Its derivation also relates to the word sponge. (That is to say spanging is sponging.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spe?nd??/

Verb

spange (third-person singular simple present spanges, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)

1. (US) 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.”

     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

     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.

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

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

Anagrams

• paseng, pegans

English

Etymology

From Middle English spangel (“a small piece of ornamental metal; a small ornament”); equivalent to spang +? -le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spæ?.??l/
• Rhymes: -æ???l

Noun

spangle (plural spangles)

1. A small piece of sparkling metallic material sewn on to a garment as decoration; a sequin.
2. Any small sparkling object.
   • 1645, Edmund Waller, “Of and to the Queene”, lines 35--38:

     Thus, in a starry night, fond children cry
     For the rich spangles that adorn the sky,
     Which, though they shine for ever fixed there,
     With light and influence relieve us here.

3. The butterfly, Papilio demoleus, family Papilionidae, of Asia.
4. (obsolete, slang) Money. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Verb

spangle (third-person singular simple present spangles, present participle spangling, simple past and past participle spangled)

1. (intransitive) To sparkle, flash or coruscate.
2. (transitive) To fix spangles to; bespangle; to adorn with stars

Derived terms

• bespangle
• spangled
• unspangled

Further reading

• spangle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pangles, Spangel, legspan