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spam
English
Alternative forms
- Spam, SPAM
Etymology
The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either spiced ham or shoulder of pork and ham but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.
The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in an email dated March 31, 1993.
The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a kind of multi-user computer gaming environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?spæm/
- also (æ-tensing) IPA(key): [?spe?m]
- Rhymes: -æm
Noun
spam (countable and uncountable, plural spams)
- (uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
- Synonym: junk mail
- Antonym: ham
- (uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
- A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.
Hyponyms
Meronyms
- e-mail, email
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
spam (third-person singular simple present spams, present participle spamming, simple past and past participle spammed)
- (intransitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
- (transitive, computing, Internet) To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
- (transitive, by extension, video games) To use (a spell or ability) rapidly and repeatedly.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, Internet) To post the same text repeatedly with disruptive effect; to flood.
Translations
See also
- Wikipedia article on spamming
- Official SPAM home page
References
Anagrams
- AMPS, APMs, MAPs, MPAs, amps, maps, pams, sAMP, samp
Danish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English spam.
Noun
spam (genitive spams)
- (computing, Internet) Spam.
Etymology 2
See spamme.
Verb
spam
- imperative of spamme
Dutch
Pronunciation
- (Belgium) IPA(key): /sp?m/
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /sp?m/
- Hyphenation: spam
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English spam.
Noun
spam m (uncountable)
- spam (undesired electronic content)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
spam
- first-person singular present indicative of spammen
- imperative of spammen
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English spam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spam/
Noun
spam m (plural spams)
- spam (meat)
- (computing, Internet) spam
Synonyms
- (unsolicited email): pourriel, courriel indésirable
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English spam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sp?m]
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
spam (plural spamek)
- (computing, Internet) spam
Declension
Interlingua
Noun
spam (plural spams)
- (computing, Internet) spam
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English spam.
Noun
spam m (invariable)
- (Internet) spam
Related terms
- spamming
Polish
Etymology
From English spam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spam/
Noun
spam m inan
- (computing, Internet) spam (unsolicited bulk electronic messages)
Declension
Derived terms
- (verb) spamowa?
Related terms
- (noun) spamer
Further reading
- spam in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- spam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English spam.
Noun
spam m (uncountable)
- (computing, Internet) spam
Slovene
Etymology
Borrowed from English spam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp???m/
Noun
sp?m m inan
- (Internet) spam (unwanted messages)
Alternative forms
- sp?m
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English spam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?spam/, [?spãm]
- IPA(key): /es?pam/, [es?pãm]
Noun
spam m (plural spams)
- (computing) spam
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English spam. Earliest attested in 1997.
Noun
spam n
- (uncountable) spam (unsolicited electronic messages)
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
- skräppost
Derived terms
- spammare
- spamfilter
References
- spam in Svensk ordbok (SO)
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from English spam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [spam]
- Hyphenation: spam
Noun
spam (definite accusative spam?, plural spamlar)
- (computing, Internet) spam
Usage notes
As the word starts with two consonants, some Turkish people will have difficulties to spell it correctly. It may be spelled also s?pam.
Declension
Synonyms
- y???n mesaj
Vietnamese
Etymology
Borrowed from English spam.
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [spam??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [spam??]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [spam??]
- Phonetic: xp?m
Noun
spam
- (computing, Internet) spam
spam From the web:
- what spam means
- what spam made of
- what spam risk means
- what spam stand for
- what spam made out of
- what spam taste like
- what spam in a can
- what spam in email
soam
English
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from a variant of seam.
Noun
soam (plural soams)
- A chain by which a leading horse draws a plough.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (mining) A short rope used to pull the tram in a coal-mine.
- A horse-lead.
Anagrams
- -omas, Amos, MOAS, MOAs, Samo, SoMa, Soma, maos, moas, omas, soma
Portuguese
Verb
soam
- Third-person plural (eles, elas, also used with vocês?) present indicative of soar
soam From the web:
- what spam
- what spam means
- what spam made of
- what spam stand for
- what spam risk means
- what spam made out of
- what spam taste like
- what spam in a can
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