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spad
English
Etymology 1
Shortening of special adviser.
Alternative forms
- SpAd, SpAD
Noun
spad (plural spads)
- (UK politics, informal) A government adviser, often in a political or media role.
- 2009, Ben Wright, Hidden world of the political advisers, BBC:
- A successful stint as a spad can be a crucial political apprenticeship - as many of the current crop of professional politicians including the Miliband brothers, David Cameron and George Osborne can testify - so long as they stay in the dark.
- 2012, Avoid The Thick of It-style spad appointments, ministers told, The Guardian:
- The hit BBC sitcom satirising the inner workings of Whitehall and the so-called spads contains "more than a grain of truth", the head of the cross-party public administration select committee has warned.
- 2009, Ben Wright, Hidden world of the political advisers, BBC:
Etymology 2
Noun
spad (plural spads)
- (mining) A nail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to mark stations in underground surveying.
Anagrams
- APDS, ASPD, PDAs, SaPD, daps, pads
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?spat]
Noun
spad m
- fallout
Further reading
- spad in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- spad in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
spad
- imperative of spada
Polish
Etymology
Deverbal of spada?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spat/
Noun
spad m inan
- (printing) bleed
- A fallen nut or fruit.
- (collective) fallen nuts or fruit
- slope, gradient
Declension
Further reading
- spad in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- spad in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish spadh. Cognate with Icelandic spað and Danish spad.
Noun
spad n
- broth, decoction
- (colloquial) a body of water
Usage notes
Colloquial sense often used in the abbreviated definite singular form spat, for example hoppa i spat ("jump in the water") or trilla i spat ("fall in the water").
Declension
References
- spad in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- spad in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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shad
English
Etymology
Old English sceadd, either from Celtic (see Irish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian (see dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æd/
- Rhymes: -æd
Noun
shad (plural shad or shads)
- Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
- 2003, Edith Grossman, translator, Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Chapter 1
- Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts.
- 2003, Edith Grossman, translator, Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Chapter 1
- (South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- ADHs, Dash, SAHD, Sadh, dahs, dash
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English shoed, past participle of shon.
Adjective
shad
- shod
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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