spad
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Shortening of special adviser.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
spad (plural spads)
- (UK politics, informal) A government adviser, often in a political or media role.
- 1997 November, Reddy Hannah with Wimbush, Angela and Linesberry, Debbie, “Abbreviations and Acronyms”, in Dr. Russell G. Swenson, editor, Defense and Intelligence Abbreviations and Acronyms[1], Washington, DC: Joint Military Intelligence College, archived from the original on 18 September 2017, page 192:
- SPAD Special Advisor
- 2009, Ben Wright, Hidden world of the political advisers[2], 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.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
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.
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
spad (plural spads)
- Clipping of spadona/spadone.
- 1911 September, contributed by Cyphers Incubator Co., “Ostrich Farming in South Africa”, in American Poultry World, volume II, number 11, Buffalo, N.Y.: American Poultry Publishing Co., page 966:
- No. 6.—Spadonas or spads, the first wing-quills of the chick, clipped at about six months.
- 1921 September 7, The New York Times, volume LXX, number 23,237, New York, N.Y., page 24, column 6:
- RAW OSTRICH FEATHERS / Primes, Wings, White Feminas, Spads, Etc.
- 1924 February 12, “On Ostrich Feathers”, in The Manchester Guardian, number 24,175, page 6, column 4:
- “What d’you mean—‘feathers’,” asked the tanned young public school man who volunteered to trot me round, “spads, second-after-chicks, fancies, natals, black butts, adults, juvenals, byocks, chicks, primes, feminas, or what?” […] The first white ones we call spads. […] Two or three months after that clipping we pull out the spad quills.
- 1959, The Standard Bank Review, The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, page 15:
- An improvement was noted in the demand for femina wings, spads and long bodies;
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
spad m inan
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Verb edit
spad
- imperative of spada
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
spad m inan
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Declension of spad
Further reading edit
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
spad (past spad, future spadaidh, verbal noun spadadh, past participle spadte)
- to flatten
- to floor, to knock down
- to kill
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of spad (regular)
singular | plural | impersonal | ||||||
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first | second | third m/f | first | second | third | |||
independent | past | spad mi | spad thu | spad e/i | spad sinn | spad sibh | spad iad | spadadh |
future | spadaidh mi | spadaidh tu | spadaidh e/i | spadaidh sinn | spadaidh sibh | spadaidh iad | spadar spadtar | |
conditional | spadainn | spadadh tu | spadadh e/i | spadamaid spadadh sinn |
spadadh sibh | spadadh iad | spadtadh spadaist(e)1 | |
negative | past | cha do spad mi | cha do spad thu | cha do spad e/i | cha do spad sinn | cha do spad sibh | cha do spad iad | cha do spadadh |
future | cha spad mi | cha spad thu | cha spad e/i | cha spad sinn | cha spad sibh | cha spad iad | cha spadar cha spadtar | |
conditional | cha spadainn | cha spadadh tu | cha spadadh e/i | cha spadamaid cha spadadh sinn |
cha spadadh sibh | cha spadadh iad | cha spadtadh cha spadaist(e)1 | |
affirmative interrogative |
past | an do spad mi? | an do spad thu? | an do spad e/i? | an do spad sinn? | an do spad sibh? | an do spad iad? | an do spadadh? |
future | an spad mi? | an spad thu? | an spad e/i? | an spad sinn? | an spad sibh? | an spad iad? | an spadar? an spadtar? | |
conditional | an spadainn? | an spadadh tu? | an spadadh e/i? | an spadamaid? an spadadh sinn? |
an spadadh sibh? | an spadadh iad? | an spadtadh? an spadaist(e)1? | |
negative interrogative |
past | nach do spad mi? | nach do spad thu? | nach do spad e/i? | nach do spad sinn? | nach do spad sibh? | nach do spad iad? | nach do spadadh? |
future | nach spad mi? | nach spad thu? | nach spad e/i? | nach spad sinn? | nach spad sibh? | nach spad iad? | nach spadar? nach spadtar? | |
conditional | nach spadainn? | nach spadadh tu? | nach spadadh e/i? | nach spadamaid? nach spadadh sinn? |
nach spadadh sibh? | nach spadadh iad? | nach spadtadh? nach spadaist(e)1? | |
relative future |
affirmative | (ma) spadas mi | (ma) spadas thu | (ma) spadas e/i | (ma) spadas sinn | (ma) spadas sibh | (ma) spadas iad | (ma) spadar |
negative | (mur) spad mi | (mur) spad thu | (mur) spad e/i | (mur) spad sinn | (mur) spad sibh | (mur) spad iad | (mur) spadar (mur) spadtar | |
imperative | spadam | spad | spadadh e/i | spadamaid | spadaibh | spadadh iad | spadar spadtar | |
stem | spad | |||||||
verbal noun | spadadh | |||||||
past participle | spadta |
References edit
“spad” in Am Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish spadh. Cognate with Icelandic spað and Danish spad.
Noun edit
spad n
- (cooking) broth, decoction (water that something has been boiled in (whether used as an ingredient or not))
- korvspad
- sausage broth (water that sausages have been boiled in)
- (colloquial, usually in the shortened definite form "spat") lake- or seawater, drink
- trilla i spa(de)t
- fall into the drink
Usage notes edit
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 edit
Declension of spad | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | spad | spadet | — | — |
Genitive | spads | spadets | — | — |
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- spad in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- spad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- spad in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- spad in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)