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JTSimon:
Overseer you Englishmen are off..

Main Entry: spick
Variant(s): or spic or spik /'spik/
Function: noun
Etymology: by shortening & alteration from spiggoty, of unknown origin
Date: 1916
usually offensive : SPANISH AMERICAN

Don Seer:

--- Quote from: Kain670 on November 20, 2003, 01:42:20 PM ---Overseer you Englishmen are off..

Main Entry: spick
Variant(s): or spic or spik /'spik/
Function: noun
Etymology: by shortening & alteration from spiggoty, of unknown origin
Date: 1916
usually offensive : SPANISH AMERICAN

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funny

http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Dictionary/spic.htm


SPIC (also spick, spik)

An Italian. (Derogatory; likely from the following route spaghetti.) Also said to be from "no spica di English" [US slang, early 1900s]
This definition is more of the traditional definition and it demonstrates the negative

connotation of the word.

Any Hispanic: a Latin American, a Mexican, a Spaniard, or a Portuguese. [Derogatory. US slang 1900s to the present]
This definition also illustrates another way that the word spic has negative overtures.

Spanish language, especially as taught in college. [Derogatory. US slang mid 1900s to the present]





ok wiseguy?

JTSimon:
http://www.britannica.com/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=Spick

Britannica has more weight then some Professor's website  ;D

Don Seer:
lol...

the racial slur database...  http://www.rsdb.org/

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"Short for Hispanic. Might also be acronym of SPanish, Indian, and Colored, coming from the mixed breeds that resulted from the union of Spanish colonists, Indian natives, and Black (colored) slaves. From the OED. spic A. n. a. A contemptuous and offensive name for a Spanish-speaking native of Central or South America or the Caribbean; a spiggoty. - It dates back (in print) to at least 1913. However, I understand it first applied to Italian immigrants in the late 1800s p- More information: 1938 Amer. Speech XIII. 311/1 "Spiggoty" originated in Panama during Construction Days, and is assumed to be a corruption of 'spikee de' in the sentence 'No spikee de English'"
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mainly hispanics, but italians too..


ok? ;)

JTSimon:
Hahahahahahahahaha 'No spikee de English'

Alright Overseer you win this one even though However, I understand it first applied to Italian immigrants in the late 1800s is not part of the definition and someone own understanding of the word probably an English dude too  ;D



p.s. I added that site to my favorites for future reference ;)

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