spenny
/ˈspɛni/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A diminutive of the male given name Spencer.
Example Sentences
- ""Rather a spenny little bundle, I'm afraid," he thought, "but strictly expense account stuff. […]""
- "My mate Nick's got a Wild Country Voyager that was pretty spenny and obviously high performance but small (having said that he only paid 80 quid for it from outside cos it'd been a demo at a show)."
- "Ibanez will probably be too spenny unless you find one secondhand with an owner who doesn't appreciate its real value."
- "Why bother with spenny cans of aspartame/sugar filled muck, when a bottle of water and a few caffeine tabs will do the job instead, hmmmmmm? Just my pen'north."
- "Darling Ray, ¶ Having narrowly escaped being consumed by flesh-eating maggots (spawned by the world of television, rather than the dead-body-munching kind), I’ve fled to Majorca (spa was too spenny). I’m here working as a wedding planner. Please stop laughing!!!"
- "Davey would buy these spenny glass jars of food for the baby, but Aidan was lucky if he got chips and scraps."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈspɛni/
- British English: /ˈspɛni/
Usage
- Australian usage
- British usage
- Informal
Inflected Forms
more spenny (comparative)
most spenny (superlative)