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单词 spod
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Definition of spod in English:

spod

noun spɒd
British informal
  • A dull or socially inept person, especially someone who is excessively studious.

    surfing the Net is a popular late-night pastime for spods
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's likely that these TV spods aren't actually lefty liberals with a will to help the poor and needy.
    • Instead, he kept it close to him, his fingers ridged, and with a confused look spreading over his face the spod in the purple shirt tried to read around the grip of his fist to see what make and model it was.
    • He ends by saying that the programme ‘is no longer the domain solely of sci-fi spods, this is must-see TV for everyone.’
    • As I'm just having to reinstall millions of apps on a rebuilt machine, this episode rather appealed to the spod in me.
    • The programme's resident science spod turned out not to have been quite the star witness for the BBC that we had all been expecting.
    • Because I am a secret spod I had done some revision before taking the test.
    • Ever since four spods from Merseyside were met by crowds of screaming girls at JFK, conquering the States has always been the ultimate goal of any group from these shores.
    • You know you'll still get some whingeing spods complaining about it.
    • It gave the spod a warm, marshmallowy smile that puffed up his features like dough.
    • Not funny, unless you're a techie spod, I suppose.
    Synonyms
    bore, dull person

Derivatives

  • spoddy

  • adjectivespoddiest, spoddier
    British informal
    • This is because it's mostly voted for by men who like lists, and voting, and spoddy men are traditionalists.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Awkward and spoddy, most are post-graduate students or in their first job in the City.
      • I got rather excited this morning in a spoddy kind of way when I received my first piece of mail where the postage was priced up entirely in euros.
      • Check out that link for a whole lot of spoddy NZ seismic info.
      • And this morning, despite claiming to have had spoddy dreams, of this conversation he had no memory whatsoever.

Origin

1980s: of unknown origin.

 
 
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