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PRONUNCIATION:	ï¿½ï¿½spk
VARIANTï¿½FORMS:	also spick
NOUN:	Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a Hispanic person.
ETYMOLOGY:	Alteration of obsolete spig, a Mexican, short for spiggoty, perhaps from an accented pronunciation of (No) speak the (English).
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