To hate the word "spenny"

[SpeedyBoarding]

"I have a great hand cream, it's a little bit spenny, but totally worth it."

It makes me cringe. Especially when prefaced with "a little bit".

Not sure why I hate it so much. Possibly because people who use it always buy the thing anyway - and it's usually in reference to a luxury item. Normally the thing is pretty darn expensive for what it is (£100 face cream). It conjures up a certain image in my mind: Someone who thinks they're posher than they are. They have to tell everyone how expensive everything is they have bought.

• Was my council tax bill or rent "a little bit spenny" this year? No.
• Is my Soho House membership, or a dinner at Nobu, that I'm telling you (bragging) about "a little bit spenny"? Yes.

Never heard this term. Makes me think of Spennymoor, which sounds even pricier but is actually a v modest town in County Durham.

No it’s not, spenny is (sadly) a thing - usually used by brain dead idiots.
Sadly I seem to work with a few!

I’ve never heard spenny.

spendy- I would assume anyone saying spenny intends to say spendy but their accent misses the d.

Happy to tell you I've never heard it before this thread
In Scotland tho

Yes people also say spendy to mean the same, but ‘spenny’ is definitely a thing, even if you haven’t heard of it.

I have never heard spenny or even spendy in real life - I don't know who uses these words but it is nobody I spend time with.

This thread is giving me "I've gorra visit me granny in Whizzy Ozzy this avvy" vibes. 😅

Never heard this word in my entire long life.

Never heard either spenny or spendy

It’s a relatively recent thing and it’s mainly among the younger people/social media brigade.

Just when I think I've no more hate to give ... 😆😆

One of the first thing that horrified me on Mumsnet a million years ago was "spends" to mean spending money....

Lolol at menty B. It is very perky and cheerful, unlike an actual menty B.

Perhaps it will reduce the stiggy mil (the stigma associated with mental illness)

It’s all got more spenny since the panny d.

Is this the modern day equivalent of Pig Latin?

And the Uki vaysh (invasion of Ukraine)

Me neither.

Surely not?

First time I've heard it.
Hopefully the last.

I've never heard 'spenny' but have read and heard 'spendy' multiple times.
Not got a problem with it...it's just another colloquialism.
I recently bought a biking rucksack. It was a bit spendy at £130. Truth be told I could have had a perfectly serviceable one at £60. I wanted the spendy one. Am I an arsehole to say so?

Also, is 'spenny' correct? I haven't come across it before.

As pointed out, it’s a contraction of expensive. It’s been around for at least five years (I work with teens).

It’s been submitted for inclusion in the Collins dictionary:

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/411769/spenny#:~:text=expensive%20(informal%20usage)

I'm in the NW and I've never heard anyone use either but I've heard both quite a bit on here, especially on S&B.

That just makes me glad that I have almost no contact with 'young people' and the ones I'm related to (nieces and nephews) rarely look up from their phones to acknowledge my existence let alone speak when I'm around.

Spenny also made me think first of Spennymoor. I used to visit the cigarette factory for work before it closed down.

I'm in Wales north, never heard of it. We'd just say it was extravagant if anything.