IRL I’ll say pricey, but not spendy. Here is different.

Noooope...I’ve heard the term but don’t use it

It's been in my lexicon for so long, I thought that it was used everywhere. Didn't realize that it was a PNW thing.

It’s used here a good bit. Didn’t think about it being regional.

Born, raised and currently live in MD and lived in NYC years ago. While I've heard the word, it is not a word I hear people use here in MD. Dh is from CA and never uses that word but he hasn't lived there since the early 90s. His family all lives on West Coast, but I've never heard them use it either tho' that doesn't mean they don't normally use it (I don't see them often).

I've heard it here in MN. I don't use it, but I'm not from here.

I only started hearing that word used within the last few years. I've always used pricey or expensive.

I say pricey. But I know what spendy means. I most recently lived in the Bay Area for a number of years and I would guess that's mostly where I have heard it.

I've heard it in Texas, but not often -- and I can't say that it wasn't on media rather than in person. I don't think I have ever used the term.

Jeeeeezz! Even up here in ND, I've heard it as long as I've been around!

Faron

Yes I use the term, and people seem to understand. I think that GW and KT have introduced me to terms I might not have otherwise heard locally.

I definitely recognize it and thought it was common but don’t use it myself. Now that I think about it I guess I don’t hear people say it around here, East Coast of Canada.

Maine, never heard spendy. Things that cost a lot are dear or expensive.

Never heard it either and I'm in the PA/NJ area.

No. It's not used here and I might have gotten the definition incorrect unless I heard it in context.

After 40+ years, have never heard anyone use that word in Miami. Now, if you ask me about aye que rico or demasiado....este es un historia diferente!

I've only heard it here. I don't like it very much.

I use it occasionally and I’m in the Midwest. I use it interchangeably with pricey and expensive. I don’t hear it a lot around here.

The first I heard it was here on GW several years back...don't use it personally.

I grew up in Oregon, and that word, spendy, is very common there, as was stated. It wasn't until college that I had the same realization as Terriks. Some people didn't understand it, so I had to research to find out it was just a regional word. I honestly haven't encountered that before or after with any other word. I don't use it as much now.

Nope, not in rural midwestern USA. I think the only place I’ve seen it used is on here. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say it.

never heard it..hooray thanks now I know a new word!

I've heard it used but I don't use it and it's not common here (MN)

I really don't care for the word

It's used in a what I believe is a national commercial for Hilton Weekenders

In the commercial, they feature a family walking into the hotel with a load of shopping bags..as in, they went on a major shopping spree, and it's identified as them being 'spendy'

It can grate because it is arguably poor grammar. Spend is a verb (at least in formal usage) and you cannot add a "y" to a verb to make an adjective. TBH I think kids like breaking grammar rules (such badazzes!) especially because they sometimes perceive it as urban/hip to do so.

My family uses it on occasion to mean not only expensive, but also a little indulgent and/or gaudy. An actual example (to me) looking at my new car a few years ago "Mmm, leather seats, a little spendy, eh?".

And since the car is a Honda Civic, the implication was, oh, you bought a cheap car with expensive finishes, a waste of $$ and a bit tacky. But that's how my family rolls.

Western Canada; have seen it used on forums like this, but have never heard it used in local conversations.

I'm not sure about poor grammar. Using the rule "Spend is a verb (at least in formal usage) and you cannot add a "y" to a verb to make an adjective"

Isn't that what do we do to get runny, flowy, choppy, fussy, blurry?

No, I don't use it but have heard it used.

How odd. I'm a PNW native and have never used it, nor (to the best of my knowledge) have I heard others do so.

I need to get out more.

Nope, I’ve never used it and have only heard it when vacationing in (drop-dead beautiful) Oregon.

I heard someone say it today, in E. WA. :)

Familiar with “spendy”, it is used in So Cal but it is not a word I hear often. Not sure if I have ever used the word myself.

I say pricey and thought spendy was what people did with pricey items.

Buffy is spendy with those pricey (expensive) items. She doesn't care the cost, she just bought five hundred of them. She's sooo spendy. She'll end up in debtors prison if she keeps that up.

(it's OT but Tory Burch flip flops are indeed very good))..living where we are I spend enormous time in them. It's also very casual around here so no, not only the pool. They're extremely comfortable and given that I wear them so much they hold for longest time. Best flip flops ever. I had same quality flip flops only once when I was five or six..they were from Vietnam or something.)

I think that I actually use it more often when I'm writing than speaking. I know that I mentioned a service in Spain on a Camino forum, and wrote that although it was spendy, it was worth it for the convenience. Now that I know that spendy is not universally understood, I hope that people knew what I meant.

JTL, I've never heard it used that way, more like what Nini and Terriks say. If I'm talking or writing to friends and we're trying to decide on which restaurant to go to, spendy might be a word I'd use to warn someone that it might be a bit expensive: "It has great food, but it might be a bit spendy for some of us."

Just out of curiosity, I searched GW Decorating for the word to see how often it was used and it came up 190 times, so it's pretty common. No way of knowing where those folks are from in every case.

I haven't heard it used that way either, JTL. We use it like nini referenced. Wow, those shoes are spendy. People are not spendy. The item/price is spendy.

Yes, I see. I can't really remember hearing that word but I know I have at some point. In my mind though I was thinking of a person who spends a lot...Willy nilly.

From PA and now in VA in the DC/MD/VA area and have never heard it used.

Were you thinking of a spendthrift JTL?

No not spendthrift, I don't think? I just don't really hear that used. What is spendthrift?

Funny you mention that-I recently used it when describing something on the high priced side. It's an indulgence thing, rather than something prohibitively expensive. "A soy latte at Starbucks is more spendy than Dutch Bros, but I prefer the Starbucks lattes".

I had recently read that it was most common in the PNW. I can't remember not hearing the term, but I've been an Oregonian now longer than I was a Californian. I don't think I've ever referred to something as 'pricey'. It would either be expensive or spendy.

I've lived in KS, MO, DC, NY, ME, MA, CA and now KY. Never heard the term in any of these places.

Never heard it used around here (Cdn west coast)

Not around here in the Boston area.

This is SO funny to me! It's like "Uffda" up here!!! I've heard them & spoken them so long I don't even notice! It's like the word "the" lol!!

The Ferrari's & Lambo's I snapped in the other thread, are indeed $pendy!!! $150K & up.........way up. The Ferrari 488.....is just.....Uffda! ;-)

Faron

PS....I drove the "cheap" F430-F1.

I'm rather new here but couldn't resist chiming in on this one! I live in Northern Nevada and literally used "spendy" three times yesterday. It's an every day word here, tho it is very slangy. I think many of us in this area add a "y" to many words as we massacre our grammar lessons.

Nope, don't use that word with all the many options out there that basically mean the same thing! If I had to get out the thesaurus to find one I would - yeah I'm probably a terminology snob.