Lazarus vs spanger

Lazarus

noun
  • A poor person, a beggar. 

  • A person who was dead and has been resurrected; a dead person who could potentially be resurrected. 

verb
  • To rescue a dying person. 

  • To raise from the dead. 

name
  • A beggar in a parable by Jesus Christ, traditionally (Christianity) believed to have been a leper and often conflated with Lazarus of Bethany. 

  • Lazarus of Bethany, a man supposedly raised from the dead by Jesus Christ and later (Christianity) revered as a saint. 

  • A male given name from Hebrew. 

spanger

noun
  • beggar, one who uses the phrase “spare change?” 

How often have the words Lazarus and spanger occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )