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A person who studies too much, or is too deep in some narrow interest, and is a bit socially hopeless because of it. British slang, and quite dated now — it belongs to school playgrounds and early internet forums of the 1980s and 90s, and younger speakers today are more likely to say nerd or geek. It is an insult, but a small one, closer to teasing than real cruelty, and people sometimes call themselves a spod half-proudly. There is a verb too: to spod, meaning to sit hunched over a computer for hours doing something obscure. Worth knowing the drift here: nerd and geek have become almost compliments in English now, but spod never made that journey — it stayed , and it stayed British. Because it is so dated, using it will mark you as someone who learned the word from an old book.
書呆子、宅到不會做人的人(英式俚語,帶貶意,現在已經很老派,年輕人多半說 nerd)
組成Origin unknown. One suggestion links it to spud, the informal word for a potato — but nobody is certain, so treat that as a story people tell rather than a fact.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
spodnoun/spɒd/
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One who uses talkers, an early form of chat room.
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One who studies excessively and is disliked by fellow students because of it; a swot.
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One who wastes time on nonproductive activities online.
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A person of clumsy or awkward appearance.
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fishinghobbieslifestyleA container used to distribute a large amount of bait in a single cast.
spodverb/spɒd/
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fishinghobbieslifestyleTo fish using a spod.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。