attributive in the sense ‘used or available for ordinary expenditure or consumption’, as spending-brass, spending-silver (= spending-money, n.), spend…

Obsolete. Means of meeting expenditure, money to spend or use; means of support; supplies.

Money to defray expenses.

Money used or available for spending; a sum allowed for this purpose; pocket-money.

A small amount of money carried in the pocket for minor expenses; spending money. Now: esp. money given as an allowance to another person, esp. a…

In extended use: a trivial amount of money; (also) spending money, esp. for inessential items and incidental expenses.

= pocket money, n.

a penny or small sum of money given to a child on a Saturday as pocket money.

concrete. That which may be or is spent; money, supplies; dialect pocket-money. Also plural.

elliptical for ‘spending money’. Frequently in plural. colloquial and dialect (chiefly northern).