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Spendy means expensive — but it is casual, slang, not a word for writing. It sounds relaxed and slightly , the way you might comment on a price without complaining too hard: 'Nice restaurant, but a bit spendy.' It is most common in the American Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington), where it is thoroughly ordinary, and it has spread from there; some English speakers elsewhere have never heard it and will still understand it instantly, because the shape of the word explains itself. There is a second, less common use, describing a person who spends a lot: 'I get spendy when I'm stressed.' The word is built the simple way English builds informal describing words — take a word and add -y, like 'sleepy', '', 'grabby'. That is also why it feels light: -y words often sound friendly or , which is exactly the tone that makes 'spendy' softer than 'expensive'.
貴(口語、非正式的說法,帶點輕鬆語氣)
組成spend + -y。-y 是英語造「口語形容詞」的老方法(sleepy、chatty、messy),所以這個字天生就帶著輕鬆、不正式的味道。
同家族的字
- spend / spending / spendersame spend
- sleepy / chatty / messysame -y ending that makes casual describing words
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
spendyadj/ˈspɛndi/
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Expensive, costly.
- Amy: When I get married, I'm gonna register at the UCLA cadaver lab. Penny: Eww, why? Amy: Cause I've always wanted a whole human skeleton, and they are really spendy.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。