spam
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Etymology edit
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"[1] 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 a newsgroup post 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.
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spam (countable and uncountable, plural spams)
- (uncountable, rarely countable, computing, Internet) Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
- 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist[2], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
- In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
- (uncountable, computing, Internet) Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
- Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)
- An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.
- Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)
- (Internet) Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of spam account.
- A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.
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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, intransitive, computing, Internet) To send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.
- (transitive, by extension, computing, video games) To do something rapidly and repeatedly.
- Stop spamming that special attack!
- Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.
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- ^ “What does the SPAM brand name mean?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2013 July 6 (last accessed), archived from the original on 14 October 2013
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Danish edit
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spam (genitive spams)
Etymology 2 edit
See spamme.
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spam
- imperative of spamme
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spam m (uncountable)
- spam (undesired electronic content)
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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spam
- inflection of spammen:
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spam m (plural spams)
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- (unsolicited email): pourriel, courriel indésirable
Hungarian edit
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spam (plural spamek)
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| Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | spam | spamek |
| accusative | spamet | spameket |
| dative | spamnek | spameknek |
| instrumental | spammel | spamekkel |
| causal-final | spamért | spamekért |
| translative | spammé | spamekké |
| terminative | spamig | spamekig |
| essive-formal | spamként | spamekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | spamben | spamekben |
| superessive | spamen | spameken |
| adessive | spamnél | spameknél |
| illative | spambe | spamekbe |
| sublative | spamre | spamekre |
| allative | spamhez | spamekhez |
| elative | spamből | spamekből |
| delative | spamről | spamekről |
| ablative | spamtől | spamektől |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
spamé | spameké |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
spaméi | spamekéi |
| Possessive forms of spam | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
| 1st person sing. | spamem | spameim |
| 2nd person sing. | spamed | spameid |
| 3rd person sing. | spame | spamei |
| 1st person plural | spamünk | spameink |
| 2nd person plural | spametek | spameitek |
| 3rd person plural | spamük | spameik |
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spam (plural spams)
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Unadapted borrowing from English spam.
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spam m (invariable)
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spam m inan
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Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English spam.
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spam m (uncountable)
Romanian edit
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spam n (plural spamuri)
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| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) spam | spamul | (niște) spamuri | spamurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) spam | spamului | (unor) spamuri | spamurilor |
| vocative | spamule | spamurilor | ||
Slovene edit
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spȃm m inan
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Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English spam.
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spam m (plural spams)
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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
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Further reading edit
- “spam”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English spam. Earliest attested in 1997.
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spam n
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| Declension of spam | ||||
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| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | spam | spammet | spam | spammen |
| Genitive | spams | spammets | spams | spammens |
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spam (definite accusative spamı, plural spamlar)
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As the word starts with two consonants, some Turkish people will have difficulties to spell it correctly. It may be spelled also sıpam.
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| Inflection | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | spam | |
| Definite accusative | spamı | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | spam | spamlar |
| Definite accusative | spamı | spamları |
| Dative | spama | spamlara |
| Locative | spamda | spamlarda |
| Ablative | spamdan | spamlardan |
| Genitive | spamın | spamların |
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Vietnamese edit
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- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [spam˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [spam˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [spam˧˧]
- Phonetic: xpăm
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spam