Shortening ofspecialadviser.

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• SpAd,SpAD

spad (pluralspads)

1. (UK politics, informal) A government adviser, often in a political or media role.
   • 1997 November, Reddy Hannah with Wimbush, Angela and Linesberry, Debbie, “Abbreviations and Acronyms”, in Dr. Russell G. Swenson, editor,Defense and Intelligence Abbreviations and Acronyms‎^[2], Washington, DC: Joint Military Intelligence College, archived fromthe original on18 September 2017, page192:

     SPAD Special Advisor

   • 2009, Ben Wright,Hidden world of the political advisers‎^[3], BBC:

     A successful stint as aspad can be a crucial political apprenticeship - as many of the current crop of professional politicians including the Miliband brothers, David Cameron and George Osborne can testify - so long as they stay in the dark.

   • 2012,Avoid The Thick of It-style spad appointments, ministers told,The Guardian:

     The hit BBC sitcom satirising the inner workings of Whitehall and the so-calledspads contains "more than a grain of truth", the head of the cross-party public administration select committee has warned.

spad (pluralspads)

1. (mining) Anail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to markstations inundergroundsurveying.

spad (pluralspads)

1. Clipping ofspadona/spadone.
   • 1911 September, contributed by Cyphers Incubator Co., “Ostrich Farming in South Africa”, inAmerican Poultry World, volume II, number11, Buffalo, N.Y.: American Poultry Publishing Co.,page966:

     No. 6.—Spadonas orspads, the first wing-quills of the chick, clipped at about six months.

   • 1921 September 7,The New York Times, volume LXX, number23,237, New York, N.Y.,page24, column 6:

     RAW OSTRICH FEATHERS / Primes, Wings, White Feminas,Spads, Etc.

   • 1924 February 12, “On Ostrich Feathers”, inThe Manchester Guardian, number24,175,page 6, column 4:

     “What d’you mean—‘feathers’,” asked the tanned young public school man who volunteered to trot me round, “spads, second-after-chicks, fancies, natals, black butts, adults, juvenals, byocks, chicks, primes, feminas, or what?”[…]The first white ones we callspads.[…]Two or three months after that clipping we pull out thespad quills.

   • 1959,The Standard Bank Review,The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited, page15:

     An improvement was noted in the demand for femina wings,spads and long bodies;

• DAPs,daps,PADS,pads,APDs,PDAs,APDS,ASPD,SaPD

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Inherited fromProto-Slavic*sъpadъ. Bysurface analysis,s +‎pád(“fall”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈspat]

spad m inan

1. fallout

• “spad”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “spad”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989

spad

1. imperative ofspada

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Inherited fromProto-Slavic*sъpadъ. Bysurface analysis,deverbal fromspadać.

• IPA^(key): /ˈspat/

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• Rhymes:-at
• Syllabification:spad

spad m inan

1. (printing)bleed
2. windfall(fallen nut or fruit)
3. (collective) fallen nuts or fruit
4. slope,gradient

• spad inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• spad in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Possibly related tospaid(“spade”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /sbad/

spad (pastspad,futurespadaidh,verbal nounspadadh,past participlespadte)

1. toflatten
2. tofloor, toknock down
3. tokill

“spad” inAm Faclair Beag - Scottish Gaelic Dictionary.

FromOld Swedishspadh, fromOld Norsespað, ultimately from the root ofspänna(“to tighten, pull”). Cognate withIcelandicspað andDanishspad.

spad n

1. (cooking)broth,decoction (water that something has been boiled in (whether used as an ingredient or not))

   korvspad

   sausagebroth (water that sausages have been boiled in)

2. (colloquial, usually in the shortened definite form "spat")lake- orseawater,drink

   trilla ispa(de)t

   fall intothe drink

Colloquial sense often used in the abbreviated definite singular formspat, for examplehoppa i spat ("jump in the water") ortrilla i spat ("fall in the water").

• klart som korvspad

• buljong
• fond

• spad inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• spad inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• spad inSvenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• spad in Elof Hellquist,Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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