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speccy en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From spec (“spectacles”) + -ie.

Meanings

1. (colloquial, derogatory, not-comparable) bespectacled
   • You came in for a quiet pint and a speccy bigot was getting ready to hit you. 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 337:
   • 2004, Bennett-Levy et al, Oxford Guide to Behavioural Experiments in Cognitive Therapy Her schoolmates called her "speccy four-eyes" and hid her glasses. She grew up feeling there was something wrong with her as a person.
   • […] perhaps being taunted as "speccy" or "four eyes" or "blindy". 1971, Ivor Felstein, A Change of Face and Figure:

speccy en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From spec (“spectacular”) + -ie.

Meanings

1. (informal, qualifier:Australian rules football) Synonym of spectacular mark.

Forms

Synonyms

spectacular mark