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Spic (or spick) is an ethnic slur used in the United States to describe Hispanic and Latino Americans or Spanish-speaking people from Latin America. Etymology and history [ edit ]
Faggot: The origin of the slur usage of the word "faggot" (originally referring to a bundle of firewood) may be from the term for women used in a similar way to "baggage", i.e. something heavy to be dealt with. The usage may also have been influenced by the British term "fag", meaning a younger schoolboy who acts as an older schoolboy's servant ...
Spic, also spelled spik, spick, or spig, is an ethnic slur used in the U.S. for a Spanish American. It can also mean anyone of vaguely Spanish extraction, such as a Latin American, Mexican, Puerto Rican, or Filipino ; or any foreigner at all; or even anyone of apparently foreign ancestry.
Spic and Span is a brand of all-purpose household cleaner marketed by KIK Custom Products Inc. for home consumer use and by Procter & Gamble for professional (non-home-consumer) use. History [ edit ]
(U.S.) an Amish person (origin uncertain [possibly from "Clay Ape", a derisive term for a farmer]; more commonly used as a verb, in the present participle – claipping : to refer to an act of harassment against the Amish, especially stoning an Amish-driven buggy as it passes along a road, particularly at night)
It was originally used as a verb in 1978 in Thomas Sanchez's Hollywoodland, with the meaning "to gain illegal entry into the United States by swimming the Rio Grande". [ 8 ] The equivalent Spanish-language term used in Mexico, Central America, and by Latinos in the United States is espalda mojada , and is often shortened to mojado . [ 9 ]
Spic is an ethnic slur for a person of Latino/Hispanic descent. Spic, spik or Špik may also refer to: SPIC (Indian company), a petrochemicals company; State Power Investment Corporation, a Chinese electricity generator; Špik, a mountain in Slovenia; Luka Špik (born 1979), a Slovenian rower
The Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music And Culture Amongst Youth, abbreviated as SPIC MACAY, is a voluntary youth movement which promotes intangible aspects of Indian cultural heritage by promoting Indian classical music, classical dance, folk music, yoga, meditation, crafts and other aspects of Indian culture; it is a movement with chapters in over 300 towns all over the ...