spenking.html - {v. phr.} To sleep somewhere. * /It was so late after the party that we decided to spend the night at our friends' house./

spenking.html - n.
archaic a buttery or larder. [ME f. OF despense f. L dispensa fem. past part. of dispendere: see DISPENSE]

spenking.html - n.
1 a short close-fitting jacket.
2 a woman's thin usu. woollen under-bodice worn for extra warmth in winter. [prob. f. the 2nd Earl Spencer, Engl. politician d. 1834]

spenking.html - n.
Naut. a trysail. [perh. f. K. Spencer (early 19th c.)]

spenking.html - v.tr.
(past and past part. spent)
1 (usu. foll. by on) a (also absol.) pay out (money) in making a purchase etc. (spent Ь5 on a new pen). b pay out (money) for a particular person's benefit or for the improvement of a thing (had to spend Ь200 on the car).
2 a use or consume (time or energy) (shall spend no more effort; how do you spend your Sundays?). b (also refl.) use up; exhaust; wear out (their ammunition was all spent; his anger was soon spent; spent herself campaigning for justice).
3 tr. (as spent adj.) having lost its original force or strength; exhausted (the storm is spent; spent bullets).

spending money pocket money. spend a penny Brit. colloq. urinate or defecate (from the coin-operated locks of public lavatories).

spendable adj. spender n. [OE spendan f. L expendere (see EXPEND ): in ME perh. also f. obs. dispend f. OF despendre expend f. L dispendere: see DISPENSE]

spenking.html - n. & adj.
--n.

an extravagant person; a prodigal.

--adj.

extravagant; prodigal.