单词 | spic |
释义 | spicn.adj. U.S. slang (derogatory and offensive). A. n. 1. A person from a Spanish-speaking country in South America, Central America, or the Caribbean, or a Hispanic American. Cf. spiggoty n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of Latin America > [noun] Latin1856 spiggoty1899 spic1906 Latin American1912 1906 World's Work Jan. 7082/2 Porto Ricans writhe under the contemptuous name of ‘Spigs’, but there is little wonder that this piece of American slang has become a fixture. 1949 W. Faulkner Knight's Gambit 137 I don't intend that a fortune-hunting Spick shall marry my mother. 2003 L. Lokko Sundowners (2004) xxv. 246 They're too busy lookin' for wetbacks and spics even to think about lookin' for the two of you. 2. Spanish, spec. any of the varieties of Spanish spoken in Latin America or by Hispanic Americans. Cf. spiggoty n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Romance > Spanish Spanish1485 Dago1900 spic1916 1916 Our Navy (U.S.) Sept. 63/1 ‘Quatro de Julio’ and ‘Mi Esteemere [sic] Amigo’ are common garden variety spig for correspondent Stokes to inflict upon the defenseless Navy regulation Kazelle bond paper. 1933 E. Hemingway Winner take Nothing (1934) 200 I wish I could talk spik... I don't get any fun out of asking that spik questions. 1994 Florida Today 17 Apr. a2/2 The other day we were talking Spanish in the classroom. A boy behind us started calling us names. He told us to stop talking ‘Spic’. B. adj. Of or relating to Spanish-speaking countries in South America, Central America, or the Caribbean, their inhabitants, or their language; of or relating to Hispanic Americans or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of Latin America > [adjective] Latin1856 Latin American1890 spic1914 1914 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 31 May (Subscribers' ed.) 15/1 Their individual ability to ‘sling the bat’ or ‘savvy the spig stuff’, as each in the slang of his land expresses himself concerning his knowledge of Spanish. 1914 Army & Navy Reg. 4 July 13/2 These have given no man on the ship more than five days regular liberty, and these few days were in ‘spig’ towns and not comparable with liberty in any port in the states. 1950 R. Moore Candlemas Bay 29 Jerry Canneri. Or Carnoodle. Some such damn spik name. a2008 D. F. Wallace Pale King (2011) xxix. 353 He was crazy as a fucking mudbug, this little hundred-pound spic kid from some Indianapolis barrio. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1906 |
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