Spaz vs Spazzer - What's the difference?
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(slang, pejorative, offensive) A stupid person.
(slang, pejorative, offensive) A hyperactive person.
(slang, pejorative, offensive) An incompetent person.
* (Tiger Woods), 2006
(slang, pejorative, offensive) A tantrum, a fit.
(slang, pejorative, offensive) To have a tantrum or fit.
(slang, offensive) To malfunction, go on the fritz.
(UK, slang, offensive) A mentally retarded person.
* 1991 , Terry Johnson, Imagine drowning (page 19)
* 2003 , "mrgoat", Which is the best console overall'' (on newsgroup ''uk.games.video.misc )
* 2008 , Patt Scott, Police Surgeon: Lethal Deception (page 5)
Spaz is a related term of spazzer.
As nouns the difference between spaz and spazzer
is that spaz is (slang|pejorative|offensive) a stupid person while spazzer is (uk|slang|offensive) a mentally retarded person.As a verb spaz
is (slang|pejorative|offensive) to have a tantrum or fit.spaz
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Alternative forms
* spazzNoun
(spazzes)- “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 .”
Usage notes
(Spastic) In addition to being insulting to the target, the term itself is offensive to some due to associations with disability (especially cerebral palsy in the UK); compare (retard), (tard). Offensiveness differs between the UK and the US: it is quite offensive in the UK, while completely inoffensive in the US, acting as a synonym for silly/hyper. It is most widely used as a playground term of abuse, both of people with disabilities and children generally. Among adults, particularly in the United States, it can be seen as gentle ribbing or self-deprecation, as in the Tiger Woods quote, but can cause offense, and is recommended against in public.The s-word, by Damon Rose, BBC News, 12 April 2006
See also
* (l) * (l)Verb
Usage notes
The sense “to malfunction” is the only sense that is not insulting to the object, and is cognate to (spasm) (compare (seize up)), but still may cause offense due to connections with (spastic).References
Anagrams
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Noun
(en noun)- None of the staff thought it was much fun, but the spazzers cheered up no end.
- A PC isn't a console you spazzer gaylord
- "You accusing my mum of breeding a load of spazzers ?"