Spamn.

Brit.

/spam/, U.S.

/spæm/

Forms: Also spam.

Etymology: Apparently blend of sp- (in spiced adj.) + -am (in ham n.¹), but see also quot. 1937¹ at main sense.

The proprietary name of a type of tinned meat consisting chiefly of pork; also (with lower-case initial) applied loosely to other types of tinned luncheon meat.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > tinned meat

rillettes1858

Fanny Adams1884

tinned dog1895

Harriet Lane1896

Maconochie1901

monkey meat1918

Spam1937

luncheon meat1945

1937 Squeal 1 July 1/2 In the last month Geo. A. Hormel & Co...launched the product Spam... The ‘think-up’ of the name [is] credited to Kenneth Daigneau, New York actor... Seems as if he had considered the word a good memorable trade-name for some time, had only waited for a product to attach it to.

1937 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 26 Oct. 750/2 Geo. A. Hormel & Company, Austin, Minn... Spam..For Canned Meats—Namely, Spiced Ham. Claims use since May 11, 1937.

1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath v. 49 The tractor driver stopped..and opened his lunch: sandwiches wrapped in waxed paper, white bread, pickle, cheese, Spam.

1942 Yank 28 Oct. 8 There, arrayed in all their glory, were slices of ham, spam, bologna and potato salad.

1951 ‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow xiii. 127 I received..four tins of meat—spam, I think it was called.

1957 H. Roosenburg Walls came tumbling Down ix. 199 We were offered Spam sandwiches.

1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face xi. 134 That night he made supper, a magnificent concoction of fried Spam and fried new potatoes.

1981 G. MacBeth Kind of Treason iv. 41 A plate of Molly's best Spam sandwiches.

figurative.1958 Listener 6 Nov. 750/2 An actor can only turn the quite unconscious richness of it [sc. the Hoxton voice] into—spam.

Compounds

Spam can n. slang a streamlined steam locomotive formerly used on the Southern Region of British Rail.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > specific class of steam locomotive

Mikado1903

Royal Scot1927

Mike1942

Spam can1967

1967 G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway v. 54 We borrowed from the Southern for trials two Battle of Britain class engines..We took these Spam Cans out.

1971 D. J. Smith Discovering Railwayana x. 59 Spam can, streamlined locomotive of the SR.

Spam medal n. Military slang a medal awarded to all the members of a force (see also quot. 1962).

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society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders

Order of St Michael1530

Legion of Honour1802

clasp1813

Iron Cross1813

medal1813

star1844

Victoria Cross1856

V.C.1859

Medal of Honour1861

bar1864

yellow jacket1864

V.D.1901

Croix de Guerre1915

Military Cross1915

C.G.M.1916

Military Medal1916

pip1917

M.M.1918

purple heart1918

Maconochie Cross1919

Maconochie Medal1919

wound-stripe1919

T.D.1924

rooty gong1925

Silver Star1932

Ritterkreuz1940

Africa Star1943

ruptured duck1945

Spam medal1945

screaming eagle1946

1945 E. Partridge Dict. R.A.F. Slang 40 Naffy gong 1939–45 star (medal). Since late 1943... It is also called the spam medal.

1959 Legionary Mar. 11/1 As all of us overseas at the time were volunteers, it meant that everybody wore one and so, in patronizing fashion, we tagged it [sc. the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal] the Spam Medal.

1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 110 Spam medal, 1939–45 star whose ribbon has the same colours as the NAAFI girls' arm flash. As spam, a kind of spiced-ham, was sold in the NAAFI canteen, what more obvious term could suggest itself?

Derivatives

ˈspammy adj. consisting or tasting chiefly of (bland) luncheon meat; also figurative, commonplace, mediocre, unexciting.

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [adjective]

feeblec1275

demeanc1380

unnoblec1384

coarse1424

colourlessc1425

passable1489

meana1500

indifferent1532

plain1539

so-so1542

mediocre1586

ordinary1590

fameless1611

middling1652

middle-rate1658

ornery1692

so-soish1819

nohow1828

betwixt and between1832

indifferential1836

null1847

undazzling1855

deviceless1884

uncompetitive1885

tug1890

run of the mill1919

serviceable1920

dim1958

spammy1959

comme ci, comme ça1968

vanilla1972

meh2007

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [adjective] > resembling Spam

spammy1959

1959 Observer 11 Jan. 18/3 Skipton is toned down to scale with our spammy age.

1960 J. Stroud Shorn Lamb i. 13 We got a spammy sort of meal.

Draft additions June 2001

Computing slang. Usually in form spam. [Compare spam v. 2.] Originally: irrelevant or inappropriate postings to an internet newsgroup, esp. messages sent to a large number of newsgroups simultaneously, often for advertising purposes; an act or instance of sending such messages. Now chiefly: similar unsolicited electronic mail, esp. when sent to individuals as part of a mass-mailing.

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1993 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 30 Sept. j 6/1 Spam, information that might not be legitimate or real, as in ‘This rumor may have a high Spam content.’]

1994 Network World (Nexis) 30 May 2 Internet users suffered another ‘spam attack’ last week, this time from a Florida public-access host user who flooded Usenet conferences with ads for a thigh-reducing cream.

1995 New Scientist 23 Sept. 26/2 Almost all of the spams are simply deleted by the users, but enough people respond for spammers to continue the practice.

2000 Times 7 Aug. (Interface section) 4/4 Don't worry. It sounds like some stupid spam to me.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

spamv.

Brit.

/spam/, U.S.

/spæm/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Spam n.

Etymology: < Spam n.In sense 2 probably with specific reference to a 1971 sketch from the British television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, set in a café where Spam was served as the main ingredient of every dish, and featuring a nonsense song whose lyrics consist chiefly of the word ‘Spam’ repeated many times over, at times interrupting or drowning out other conversation (see also quot. 1994 at sense 2); perhaps influenced by jam v.¹ 3c.

1. transitive. British Services' slang. To give (a person) an unpleasant task. rare.

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1991 Times 26 Jan. 3/5 A good trooper never ‘gonks’ (sleeps) when he is on ‘stag’ (sentry duty) even if he feels annoyed at his having been ‘spammed’ or ‘jiffed’ (given a particularly unpleasant task) by one of his superiors.

2. transitive. Computing slang. [Compare Spam n.] To flood (a network, esp. the internet, a newsgroup, or individuals) with a large number of unsolicited postings, or multiple copies of the same posting. Also intransitive: to send large numbers of unsolicited messages or advertisements.

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1991 E. S. Raymond New Hacker's Dict. Spam, to crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data.]

1994 Time 25 July 51/3 What the Arizona lawyers did that fateful April day was to ‘Spam’ the Net, a colorful bit of Internet jargon meant to evoke the effect of dropping a can of Spam into a fan and filling the surrounding space with meat.

1997 Independent 26 Sept. i. 7/2 He has used those [machines] at the weekend to spam again—and almost instantly they have been shut down as the spam is tracked back to its source.

1998 Wired Feb. 145/3 Some exiles have used email to spam the island's digerati with political diatribes.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spam
释义	Spamn. Brit. /spam/, U.S. /spæm/ Forms: Also spam. Etymology: Apparently blend of sp- (in spiced adj.) + -am (in ham n.¹), but see also quot. 1937¹ at main sense. The proprietary name of a type of tinned meat consisting chiefly of pork; also (with lower-case initial) applied loosely to other types of tinned luncheon meat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [noun] > tinned meat rillettes1858 Fanny Adams1884 tinned dog1895 Harriet Lane1896 Maconochie1901 monkey meat1918 Spam1937 luncheon meat1945 1937 Squeal 1 July 1/2 In the last month Geo. A. Hormel & Co...launched the product Spam... The ‘think-up’ of the name [is] credited to Kenneth Daigneau, New York actor... Seems as if he had considered the word a good memorable trade-name for some time, had only waited for a product to attach it to. 1937 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 26 Oct. 750/2 Geo. A. Hormel & Company, Austin, Minn... Spam..For Canned Meats—Namely, Spiced Ham. Claims use since May 11, 1937. 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath v. 49 The tractor driver stopped..and opened his lunch: sandwiches wrapped in waxed paper, white bread, pickle, cheese, Spam. 1942 Yank 28 Oct. 8 There, arrayed in all their glory, were slices of ham, spam, bologna and potato salad. 1951 ‘A. Garve’ Murder in Moscow xiii. 127 I received..four tins of meat—spam, I think it was called. 1957 H. Roosenburg Walls came tumbling Down ix. 199 We were offered Spam sandwiches. 1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face xi. 134 That night he made supper, a magnificent concoction of fried Spam and fried new potatoes. 1981 G. MacBeth Kind of Treason iv. 41 A plate of Molly's best Spam sandwiches. figurative.1958 Listener 6 Nov. 750/2 An actor can only turn the quite unconscious richness of it [sc. the Hoxton voice] into—spam. Compounds Spam can n. slang a streamlined steam locomotive formerly used on the Southern Region of British Rail. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > specific class of steam locomotive Mikado1903 Royal Scot1927 Mike1942 Spam can1967 1967 G. F. Fiennes I tried to run Railway v. 54 We borrowed from the Southern for trials two Battle of Britain class engines..We took these Spam Cans out. 1971 D. J. Smith Discovering Railwayana x. 59 Spam can, streamlined locomotive of the SR. Spam medal n. Military slang a medal awarded to all the members of a force (see also quot. 1962). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders Order of St Michael1530 Legion of Honour1802 clasp1813 Iron Cross1813 medal1813 star1844 Victoria Cross1856 V.C.1859 Medal of Honour1861 bar1864 yellow jacket1864 V.D.1901 Croix de Guerre1915 Military Cross1915 C.G.M.1916 Military Medal1916 pip1917 M.M.1918 purple heart1918 Maconochie Cross1919 Maconochie Medal1919 wound-stripe1919 T.D.1924 rooty gong1925 Silver Star1932 Ritterkreuz1940 Africa Star1943 ruptured duck1945 Spam medal1945 screaming eagle1946 1945 E. Partridge Dict. R.A.F. Slang 40 Naffy gong 1939–45 star (medal). Since late 1943... It is also called the spam medal. 1959 Legionary Mar. 11/1 As all of us overseas at the time were volunteers, it meant that everybody wore one and so, in patronizing fashion, we tagged it [sc. the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal] the Spam Medal. 1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 110 Spam medal, 1939–45 star whose ribbon has the same colours as the NAAFI girls' arm flash. As spam, a kind of spiced-ham, was sold in the NAAFI canteen, what more obvious term could suggest itself? Derivatives ˈspammy adj. consisting or tasting chiefly of (bland) luncheon meat; also figurative, commonplace, mediocre, unexciting. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [adjective] feeblec1275 demeanc1380 unnoblec1384 coarse1424 colourlessc1425 passable1489 meana1500 indifferent1532 plain1539 so-so1542 mediocre1586 ordinary1590 fameless1611 middling1652 middle-rate1658 ornery1692 so-soish1819 nohow1828 betwixt and between1832 indifferential1836 null1847 undazzling1855 deviceless1884 uncompetitive1885 tug1890 run of the mill1919 serviceable1920 dim1958 spammy1959 comme ci, comme ça1968 vanilla1972 meh2007 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > preserved meat > [adjective] > resembling Spam spammy1959 1959 Observer 11 Jan. 18/3 Skipton is toned down to scale with our spammy age. 1960 J. Stroud Shorn Lamb i. 13 We got a spammy sort of meal. Draft additions June 2001 Computing slang. Usually in form spam. [Compare spam v. 2.] Originally: irrelevant or inappropriate postings to an internet newsgroup, esp. messages sent to a large number of newsgroups simultaneously, often for advertising purposes; an act or instance of sending such messages. Now chiefly: similar unsolicited electronic mail, esp. when sent to individuals as part of a mass-mailing. ΚΠ 1993 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 30 Sept. j 6/1 Spam, information that might not be legitimate or real, as in ‘This rumor may have a high Spam content.’] 1994 Network World (Nexis) 30 May 2 Internet users suffered another ‘spam attack’ last week, this time from a Florida public-access host user who flooded Usenet conferences with ads for a thigh-reducing cream. 1995 New Scientist 23 Sept. 26/2 Almost all of the spams are simply deleted by the users, but enough people respond for spammers to continue the practice. 2000 Times 7 Aug. (Interface section) 4/4 Don't worry. It sounds like some stupid spam to me. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). spamv. Brit. /spam/, U.S. /spæm/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Spam n. Etymology: < Spam n.In sense 2 probably with specific reference to a 1971 sketch from the British television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus, set in a café where Spam was served as the main ingredient of every dish, and featuring a nonsense song whose lyrics consist chiefly of the word ‘Spam’ repeated many times over, at times interrupting or drowning out other conversation (see also quot. 1994 at sense 2); perhaps influenced by jam v.¹ 3c. 1. transitive. British Services' slang. To give (a person) an unpleasant task. rare. ΚΠ 1991 Times 26 Jan. 3/5 A good trooper never ‘gonks’ (sleeps) when he is on ‘stag’ (sentry duty) even if he feels annoyed at his having been ‘spammed’ or ‘jiffed’ (given a particularly unpleasant task) by one of his superiors. 2. transitive. Computing slang. [Compare Spam n.] To flood (a network, esp. the internet, a newsgroup, or individuals) with a large number of unsolicited postings, or multiple copies of the same posting. Also intransitive: to send large numbers of unsolicited messages or advertisements. ΚΠ 1991 E. S. Raymond New Hacker's Dict. Spam, to crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data.] 1994 Time 25 July 51/3 What the Arizona lawyers did that fateful April day was to ‘Spam’ the Net, a colorful bit of Internet jargon meant to evoke the effect of dropping a can of Spam into a fan and filling the surrounding space with meat. 1997 Independent 26 Sept. i. 7/2 He has used those [machines] at the weekend to spam again—and almost instantly they have been shut down as the spam is tracked back to its source. 1998 Wired Feb. 145/3 Some exiles have used email to spam the island's digerati with political diatribes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1937v.1991
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