spade

Syn: Attractive female

A code word originating from certain High Schools in and around Bergen, Norway during the early nineties. Coined by a group of people compelled to assess the qualities of female students, particularly those standing right next to them at any given time.

Once incorporated into the vocabulary this word has proved to be difficult to stop using. As a consequence normal people have no idea what these people are talking about, which in real life isn't necessarily a good thing.

Spade (?), n. [Cf. Spay, n.]

1. Zool.

A hart or stag three years old.

2. [Cf. L. spado.]

A castrated man or beast.

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Spade, n. [AS. spaed; spada; akin to D. spade, G. spaten, Icel. spa&edh;i, Dan. & Sw. spade, L. spatha a spatula, a broad two-edged sword, a spathe, Gr. spa`qh. Cf. Epaulet, Spade at cards, Spathe, Spatula.]

1.

An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.

Milton.

2. [Sp. espada, literally, a sword; -- so caused because these cards among the Spanish bear the figure of a sword. Sp. espada is fr. L. spatha, Gr. spa`qh. See the Etymology above.]

One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.

"Let spades be trumps!" she said. Pope.

3.

A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.

Spade bayonet, a bayonet with a broad blade which may be used digging; -- called also trowel bayonet. -- Spade handle Mach., the forked end of a connecting rod in which a pin is held at both ends. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.

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Spade (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Spading.]

To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.

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