spending-money
[f. spending vbl. n. 7.]
Money used or available for spending; a sum allowed for this purpose; pocket-money.
| 1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence, Heavtontim. i. ii, Allowing them little spending mony. 1600 J. Dymmok Ireland (1843) 8 Soren is a kind of allowance over and above the bonaght, which the Galloglass exact upon the poore by way of spendinge monye. 1632 Massinger City Madam i. i, From whom Received you spending-money? 1707 J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. lvi. (1710) 654 The Allowance of 1s. 6d. per Week for Spending-Money. a 1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 153 The servant at the term gets his fee in a round sum, while the young heir gets but a few pence for spending-money. 1856 Olmsted Slave States 102 The slaves have a good many ways of obtaining ‘spending money’. 1890 Spectator 5 July, Each missionary is therefore mulcted on the average to the extent of {pstlg}60 a year, a direct reduction..in his total spending-money of nearly one-fourth. |