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語源

From spastic. Compare spasm /ˈspæzəm/.

発音

• IPA: /spæz/
• 韻: -æz

名詞

spaz (plural spazzes) (slang, derogatory, offensive)

1. An incompetent or physically uncoordinated person; a spazmo.
   • 1981, Stephen King, The Jaunt:

     In fact, it was the view of the scientists now in charge […] that the freakier they were, the better; if a mental spaz could go through and come out all right […] then the process was probably safe for the executives, politicians, and fashion models of the world.

   • 2006, Tiger Woods, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     “I was so in control from tee to green, the best I’ve played for years… But as soon as I got on the green I was a spaz.”

2. A hyperactive, erratically behaving person.
3. A tantrum or fit.
4. A person with spastic paralysis, spastic cerebral palsy or epilepsy

使用する際の注意点

• The offensiveness of this term and of spastic differs throughout the Anglosphere. In the UK, Ireland and Australia, it is highly offensive. The term is more casually used in the U.S. and Canada, but is still offensive to some disabled people. See spastic for more.

派生語

関連する語

• spack
• spacky
• spazmo
• spastic

参考

• retard
• tard

動詞

spaz (third-person singular simple present spazzes, present participle spazzing, simple past and past participle spazzed)

1. (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) To have a tantrum or fit.
2. (slang) To malfunction, go on the fritz.

使用する際の注意点

The sense “to malfunction” is not considered offensive, but still may cause offense due to connections with spastic.

同意語

• (have a tantrum): freak out

派生語

• spaz out

参照

アナグラム

• zaps