spenno lifestyle
- noun
- Australian
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estilo de vida frugal
- Many students adopt a spenno lifestyle to manage their tight budgets while studying.
Examples
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Living a spenno lifestyle helped them save enough money for a house deposit.
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Adopting a spenno lifestyle can help you save for a house.
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After losing his job, he switched to a spenno lifestyle to cut back on expenses.
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Many young people are embracing the spenno lifestyle these days.
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After losing his job, he switched to a spenno lifestyle to cut back on expenses.
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Many students adopt a spenno lifestyle to manage their tight budgets while studying.
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Living a spenno lifestyle helped them save enough money for a house deposit.
Antonyms
How Frugal
Surface Forms
Morphology
spenno + lifestyle
The noun 'lifestyle' is transparent, but 'spenno' is a non-standard/slang form not found in the dictionary and does not transparently convey the intended sense of ‘saving’ (it could misleadingly suggest spending). Because the key lexical element is nonce/slang and unpredictable in meaning, a B1 learner who only knows the literal constituents would not reliably derive the MWE’s intended meaning.
Etymology
Spenno lifestyle may come from the everyday word spend changed into a small, casual form spenno, so you can picture someone using only tiny coins and careful choices. That's why spenno lifestyle means living to save money and 'minimizing spending'.