spaugn.
/spɔːɡ/, U.S. /spɔɡ/, /spɑɡ/, Irish English /spɒːɡ/ Anglo-Irish.
A clumsy, awkward foot.
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1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland 331 Spaug, a big clumsy foot:— ‘You put your ugly spaug down on my handkerchief.’
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. vii. [Aeolus] 125 Taking off his flat spaugs and the walk.
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