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Computing | Spod n. [UK] 1. A lower form of life found on talker systems and MUDs. The spod has few friends in RL and uses talkers instead, finding communication easier and preferable over the net. He has all the negative traits of the computer geek without having any interest in computers per se. Lacking any knowledge of or interest in how networks work, and considering his access a God-given right, he is a major irritant to sysadmins, clogging up lines in order to reach new MUDs, following passed-on instructions on how to sneak his way onto Internet ("Wow! It's in America!") and complaining when he is not allowed to use busy routes. A true spod will start any conversation with "Are you male or female?" (and follow it up with "Got any good numbers/IDs/passwords?") and will not talk to someone physically present in the same terminal room until they log onto the same machine that he is using and enter talk mode. Compare newbie, tourist, weenie, twink, terminal junkie, warez d00dz. 2. A backronym for "Sole Purpose, Obtain a Degree"; according to some self-described spods, this term is used by indifferent students to condemn their harder-working fellows. Compare the defiant adoption of the term geek in the mid-1990s by people who would previously have been stigmatized by it. 3. [Glasgow University] An otherwise competent hacker who spends way too much time on talker systems. 4. [obs.] An ordinary person; a random. This is the meaning with which the term was coined, but the inventor informs us he has himself accepted sense 1. Source: Jargon File. |
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| "SPOD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "SPOD" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
spod | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "SPOD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Thai | คนธรรมà¸"าๆ. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SPOD": spode, spodes, spodumene, spodumenes. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SPOD": hospodar, hospodars. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pods. | |
| Words within the letters "d-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: dos, ods, ops, pod, sod, sop. | |
-2 letters: do, od, op, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: apods, dipso, dopas, dopes, dorps, drops, plods, ponds, poods, posed, prods, spado, spode, updos. | |
+2 letters: adopts, bipods, depose, depots, despot, dipsos, dopers, droops, dropsy, ephods, epodes, isopod, mopeds, pagods, pedros, podsol, poinds, poised, posada, posted, pounds, prosed, pseudo, psocid, scoped, sloped, soaped, sopped, souped, speedo, spodes, spoked, spored, stoped. | |
+3 letters: adipose, adipous, apodous, apposed, bedpost, dapsone, dashpot, deploys, depones, deports, deposal, deposed, deposer, deposes, deposit, desktop, despoil, despond, despots, diploes, dipoles, disport, dispose, dognaps, dollops, dopants, dopiest, dorpers, episode, exposed, godship, holdups, hydrops, imposed, isopods, lapdogs, lipoids, opioids, opposed, outsped, padouks, pagodas, parados, pardons, parodos, passado, peascod, pedalos, periods, podesta, podites, podiums, podsols, podzols, polders, pomades, ponders, pongids, poodles, posadas, posited, postdoc, powders, presold, prosody, pseudos, psocids, pushrod, redtops, reposed, respond, sapwood, scooped, seedpod, shopped, slopped, snooped, sopited, sparoid, speedos, spiroid, splodge, spoiled, spondee, sponged, spoofed, spooked, spooled, spooned, spoored, sporoid, sported, spotted, spoused, spouted, stomped, stooped, stopped, swooped, swopped, topside, torpids, tripods, unipods, unposed, upfolds, upholds, uploads, upstood, uropods, woopsed. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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