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▪ I. spic, n. and a. U.S. slang.|spɪk|
Also spick, spig, spik, and with capital initial.
[Shortened f. spiggoty n. (and a.)]
A. n.
a. A contemptuous and offensive name for a Spanish-speaking native of Central or South America or the Caribbean; a spiggoty.
1913H. A. Franck Zone Policeman 88 i. 10 It was my first entrance into the land of the panameños, technically known on the Zone as ‘Spigoties’, and familiarly, with a tinge of despite, as ‘Spigs’. 1916E. Peixotto Our Hispanic Southwest 102 The Mexican men they despise and call ‘spicks’. 1928S. Lewis Man who knew Coolidge ii. 116 We need a supply of cheap labour, and where get it better than by encouraging these Wops and Hunks and Spigs and so on to raise as many brats as they can? 1936Opportunity Aug. 239/1 Frank was just a ‘huerco’ to his mother, ‘spick’ to his white schoolmates in Queensville, Texas. 1949W. Faulkner Knight's Gambit 137, I don't intend that a fortune-hunting Spick shall marry my mother. 1953F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is Night ix. 275 ‘He's a spic!’ he said. He was frantic with jealousy. 1964E. Lacy Pity Honest iii. 48 This is becoming a tough neighbourhood, full of Spics. 1977D. E. Westlake Nobody's Perfect (1978) 39 You'd put your kid in a school with a lotta niggers and kikes and wops and spics?
b. The Spanish language; spec. Spanish-American.
1933E. Hemingway Winner take Nothing (1934) 200, I wish I could talk spik... I don't get any fun out of asking that spik questions. 1977Amer. Speech 1975 L. 67 Spic n, 1: Spanish language 2: course in the Spanish language ‘I've had two years of Spic.’
B. adj. = spiggoty n. (and a.) 3. derog.
1919Ladies' Home Jrnl. Sept. 27 The Marines had been..silencing the elusive ‘spick’ bandit in Santo Domingo. 1950R. Moore Candlemas Bay 29 Jerry Canneri. Or Carnoodle. Some such damn spik name. 1976N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone iii. 74 A nigger fag and two spic girls with a pet monkey.
▪ II. spic
variant of spick n.1 Obs. |