Spam

Etymology
The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of spiced ham but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat.

The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a restaurant's menu has many items with spam, and it includes Vikings who would not stop singing the word. See SPAM. The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 (e.g. see this link: which finds reference in an email - at - dated March 31 1993)

The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a form of multi-user computer environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980's. See for details.

As of late, the term spam has begun to take on a new meaning and has entered the American lexicon, with it being used to denote not only electronic, but also other variations of advertisements seen as being annoying or inappropriate.

Noun

 * 1)  A collection of unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
 * I get far too much spam.
 * 1)  Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
 * 2)  An unsolicited electronic message sent in bulk, usually by email or newsgroups.
 * I received 58 spams yesterday.

Derived terms

 * spammer
 * spammy
 * spamvertising

Translations

 * Arabic: سبام, البيان المزعج, سخام
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: correu brossa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 垃圾郵件, 垃圾邮件, 垃圾信
 * Czech: spam
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: spämm
 * Finnish:, spämmi
 * French: ,
 * German:, unerwünschte elektronische Post
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: स्पैम


 * Icelandic: ruslpóstur
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: スパム,
 * Korean: 스팸
 * Norwegian: søppelpost
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: correo basura
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: สแปม


 * Catalan: correu brossa
 * Dutch:, spamboodschap, ongewenste mail
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: spämm
 * Finnish:, spämmi
 * French: ,


 * German:
 * Interlingua:
 * Norwegian: søppelpost
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * : istenmeyen yığın ileti (or İYİ for short in computing), çöp ileti, sürü ileti

Meronyms

 * e-mail, email

Verb

 * 1)  To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages.)
 * 2)  To send spam (i.e. unsolicited electronic messages) to a person or entity.
 * 3)  To relentlessly attack an enemy with a spell or ability.

Translations

 * Czech: spamovat
 * Estonian: spämmima
 * Finnish: roskapostittaa, spämmätä
 * German:
 * Interlingua: spammar


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: sende søppelpost
 * Portuguese: spamear or espamear (?)
 * Russian: спамить (spámit’)
 * Swedish:


 * Estonian: spämmima
 * Finnish: roskapostittaa, spämmätä


 * Norwegian: sende søppelpost
 * Russian: спамить (spámit’)

Anagrams

 * amps, AMPS, maps, samp

Noun

 * 1) spam (meat)
 * 2)  spam

Synonyms

 * pourriel
 * courriel indésirable

Noun


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