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spacky

spacky adjective: incompetent or physically uncoordinated.

Adjective

spacky (comparative spackier, superlative spackiest)

  1. (Ireland, UK, slang) incompetent or physically uncoordinated

Noun

spacky (plural spackies)

  1. (Ireland, UK, slang) A spazmo.

Forms of spacky

Adjective
comparativespackier
superlativespackiest
Noun
pluralspackies

Origin of spacky

From spack + -y, ultimately from spastic.

Questions about spacky

What does spacky mean?
Spacky means incompetent or physically uncoordinated.
What part of speech is spacky?
Spacky can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near spacky in the dictionary

  1. Spackman
  2. Spackmans
  3. spacko
  4. spackos
  5. spacks
  6. spacky
  7. SPACs
  8. Spacva
  9. spacy
  10. spad
  11. Spada

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