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Spic   /spɪk/   Listen
Spic

noun
1.
(ethnic slur) offensive term for persons of Latin American descent.  Synonyms: spick, spik.





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"Spic" Quotes from Famous Books



... all the Bob Lincolns wore black and white clothes like mine. But, as you see, this black and white dress is very con-spic'-u-ous. ...
— The Magic Speech Flower - or Little Luke and His Animal Friends • Melvin Hix
... to mediaeval European ideas in the matter of service. If they have any snobbish weakness for display, it is in the number of retainers they can muster. Just as in our country rural prosperity is evinced by the upkeep of fences and buildings, the spic and span new paint, and the garish furnishings, here it is written in the number of servants and hangers-on. The great foreign trading firms like to boast of the tremendous length of their pay rolls. They would rather employ four hundred underworked mediocrities at twenty pesos ...
— A Woman's Impression of the Philippines • Mary Helen Fee


Words linked to "Spic" :   cant, argot, jargon, disparagement, clean, lingo, Latin American, depreciation, ethnic slur, spotless, Latino, spick-and-span, vernacular, slang, derogation, immaculate, spik, patois


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