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Spastic vs Wog - What's the difference?

spastic | wog |

As nouns the difference between spastic and wog

is that spastic is a person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy while wog is (british|slang|pejorative|ethnic slur) any dark-skinned person most commonly used to refer to people of indian, north african, mediterranean, or middle eastern ancestry or wog can be abbreviation of polliwog or wog can be a minor illness, a bug, an insect or parasite or wog can be (scientology) an acronym for "without goals", ie a person who is not a scientologist or wog can be wog = water-oil-gas, typically marked on valves indicating acceptable for use with these fluids.

As an adjective spastic

is (pathology) of, relating to, or affected by spasm.

As a verb wog is

(slang) to steal.

spastic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (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.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy.
  • (slang, offensive) A stupid, clumsy person.
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    • 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, spazz

    Usage notes

    The word is perceived as relatively inoffensive in the United States, but extremely offensive in the United Kingdom.

    References

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    wog

    English

    (wikipedia wog)

    Etymology 1

    Perhaps an abbreviation of golliwog . The claim that it is an acronym for Westernised Oriental gentleman is demonstrably false, as this etymology does not seem to occur before the 1960’s although the term had been in use for over a hundred years at that point.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, slang, pejorative, ethnic slur) Any dark-skinned person. Most commonly used to refer to people of Indian, North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry.
  • (Australia, slang, pejorative, ethnic slur) A person of Southern European, Mediterranean (especially Italian, Croatian, Lebanese, Greek, Serbian, Macedonian and Bosnian people).
    • Synonyms
    * (person of Italian descent) dago * (person of Italian descent) Eyetie * (person of Italian descent) goombah * (person of Italian descent) greaseball * (person of Italian descent) guido * (person of Italian descent) guinea * (person of Italian descent) wop

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of polliwog .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Abbreviation of polliwog
  • (nautical, slang) Short for pollywog, or a sailor who has never crossed the Equator. Often referred to as either filthy, slimy, or even dirty wogs

    • Etymology 3

    Unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A minor illness, a bug, an insect or parasite.

    • Etymology 4

    Initialism, coined by .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scientology) an acronym for "Without Goals", i.e. a person who is not a Scientologist.

    • Etymology 5

    Initialism.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • WOG = water-oil-gas, typically marked on valves indicating acceptable for use with these fluids.

    • Etymology 6

    Unknown.

    Verb

  • (slang) To steal.
    • Derived terms
    * woggish English terms with unknown etymologies ----