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sporged

sporged is the simple past and past participle of sporge.

Meaning of sporge

Verb

sporge (third-person singular simple present sporges, present participle sporging, simple past and past participle sporged)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To engage in sporgery; to post a flood of articles to a Usenet newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster.
    • On September 19'th of last year the crooks started sporging other news groups with neo-Nazi and White Supremist text farmed from other news groups.1999 June 25, Fredric L. Rice, “WHAT IS THIS STRANGE LANGUAGE ?!”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)

Questions about sporged

What is sporged the simple past and past participle of?
Sporged is the simple past and past participle of sporge.

Words near sporged in the dictionary

  1. spores
  2. sporf
  3. sporfle
  4. sporfs
  5. sporge
  6. sporged
  7. sporgeries
  8. sporgery
  9. sporges
  10. sporging
  11. spori-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sporged (page history and authors); sporge (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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