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spanges

spanges is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spange.

Meaning of spange

Verb

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

  1. (US, intransitive) To beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”
    • I don’t spange much because I really don’t like doing it. I eat out of trash cans a lot.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.”

Questions about spanges

What is spanges the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Spanges is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spange.

Words near spanges in the dictionary

  1. Spangenbergs
  2. spangenhelm
  3. spangenhelms
  4. spanger
  5. spangers
  6. spanges
  7. spanghew
  8. spanghewed
  9. spanghewing
  10. spanghews
  11. spanging

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spanges (page history and authors); spange (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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