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		Definition of spod in English: spodnoun spɒd British informal A dull or socially inept person, especially someone who is excessively studious.  surfing the Net is a popular late-night pastime for spods  Example sentencesExamples -  It's likely that these TV spods aren't actually lefty liberals with a will to help the poor and needy.
 -  Instead, he kept it close to him, his fingers ridged, and with a confused look spreading over his face the spod in the purple shirt tried to read around the grip of his fist to see what make and model it was.
 -  He ends by saying that the programme ‘is no longer the domain solely of sci-fi spods, this is must-see TV for everyone.’
 -  As I'm just having to reinstall millions of apps on a rebuilt machine, this episode rather appealed to the spod in me.
 -  The programme's resident science spod turned out not to have been quite the star witness for the BBC that we had all been expecting.
 -  Because I am a secret spod I had done some revision before taking the test.
 -  Ever since four spods from Merseyside were met by crowds of screaming girls at JFK, conquering the States has always been the ultimate goal of any group from these shores.
 -  You know you'll still get some whingeing spods complaining about it.
 -  It gave the spod a warm, marshmallowy smile that puffed up his features like dough.
 -  Not funny, unless you're a techie spod, I suppose.
 
 
 Derivatives   adjectivespoddiest, spoddier  British informal  This is because it's mostly voted for by men who like lists, and voting, and spoddy men are traditionalists.  Example sentencesExamples -  Awkward and spoddy, most are post-graduate students or in their first job in the City.
 -  I got rather excited this morning in a spoddy kind of way when I received my first piece of mail where the postage was priced up entirely in euros.
 -  Check out that link for a whole lot of spoddy NZ seismic info.
 -  And this morning, despite claiming to have had spoddy dreams, of this conversation he had no memory whatsoever.
 
 
 
 Origin   1980s: of unknown origin.     |