Spastic vs Cripple - What's the difference?
spastic | cripple |
(pathology) Of, relating to, or affected by spasm.
(pathology) Of or relating to spastic paralysis.
(slang, pejorative) Clumsy.
(slang, pejorative) Hyperactive, excited, and acting in a random manner.
A person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy.
(slang, offensive) A stupid, clumsy person.
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Crippled.
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a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
* Dryden
A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
scrapple.
to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
(figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
As adjectives the difference between spastic and cripple
is that spastic is (pathology) of, relating to, or affected by spasm while cripple is crippled.As nouns the difference between spastic and cripple
is that spastic is a person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy while cripple is a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.As a verb cripple is
to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability.spastic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint.
- Alan Partridge: Yep.
- Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother.
- Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic ! You're a mentalist!
Derived terms
* spack * spacker * spaz, spazzUsage notes
The word is perceived as relatively inoffensive in the United States, but extremely offensive in the United Kingdom.References
* *Anagrams
*cripple
English
(wikipedia cripple)Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Adjective
(en adjective)- And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
Noun
(en noun)- He returned from war a cripple .
- I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
Synonyms
* disabled personDerived terms
* emotional crippleVerb
(crippl)- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
- My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
- The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.