verb
Meaning 1
To be available or unused.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- There's some bacon going spare if anyone wants some more.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
go spare
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verb
Meaning 2
To become very angry; to become frustrated or distraught: see spare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, informal
Examples
- When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare.
- The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To be unemployed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: olla tarjolla — to be available
- Finnish: turhautua — to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)
- Finnish: kyllästyä — to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)
- German: die Fassung verlieren — to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)
- German: die Beherrschung verlieren — to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)
- German: sich ärgern — to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)
- Italian: perdere le staffe — to become mad (crazy, frustrated or distressed)