Bislama edit

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Etymology edit

From English overspend.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ovaspen

  1. Overspent money; overspending
    • 2008, Miriam Meyerhoff, Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech[1], →ISBN, page 344:
      Bang i wantem mi faen from mi ovaspen.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)