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 either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.

The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993.

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

Pronunciation

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Noun



 * 1)  Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
 * 2)  Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
 * 3) * Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)
 * An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.
 * 1)  Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.
 * 2)  A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.
 * 1)  Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
 * 2) * Long title, Spam Control Act (Cap. 311A, R. Ed. 2008)
 * An Act to provide for the control of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide for matters connected therewith.
 * 1)  Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.
 * 2)  A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.
 * 1)  A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.

Translations

 * Arabic: بَيَانٌ مُزْعِج, سُخَام
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bulgarian: спам
 * Catalan: correu brossa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 垃圾信
 * Czech:
 * Danish: spam
 * Dutch:, ongewenste elektronische post, spamboodschap, ongewenste mail
 * Esperanto:, trudaĵo
 * Estonian: spämm
 * Faroese: spamm
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , ,
 * German:, unerwünschte elektronische Massenpost
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: स्पैम
 * Hungarian: szpem
 * Icelandic: ruslpóstur
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: spam
 * Irish: turscar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: スパム, 迷惑メール
 * Korean: 스팸
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: brukalas, šlamštas
 * Macedonian: спам
 * Marathi: स्पॅम
 * Norwegian: søppelpost
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, lixo eletrônico
 * Russian:, нежела́тельная по́чта
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman: neželjena pošta
 * Spanish:, correo no deseado
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai: สแปม
 * Turkish:, yığın mesaj
 * Yiddish: בליצמיסט


 * Catalan: contingut brossa
 * Finnish: ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese: スパム
 * Korean: 스팸
 * Marathi: स्पॅम
 * Navajo: Bilagáana bikʼos, atsįʼ yikʼáni, atsįʼ béé átʼáhí
 * Polish: konserwa turystyczna,
 * Russian:
 * Yiddish: ספּאַמפֿלייש


 * Turkish:, ,

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 send messages repeatedly, often with disruptive effect; to flood.
 * 4)  To do something rapidly and repeatedly.

Translations

 * Czech: spamovat
 * Esperanto: rubleteri
 * Estonian: spämmima
 * Faroese: spamma
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: spammen
 * Interlingua: spammar
 * Italian: spammare
 * Maori: hītini
 * Norwegian: sende søppelpost
 * Portuguese: spamear, spammar
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: spamlemek


 * Estonian: spämmima
 * Faroese: spamma
 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian: spammare
 * Maori: hītini
 * Norwegian: sende søppelpost
 * Russian:, спа́ммить
 * Turkish: spamlemek

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  Spam.

Etymology 2
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Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) spam undesired electronic content

Etymology
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Noun

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 * 2)  spam

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  spam

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Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  spam

Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  spam (unwanted messages)

Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from. Earliest attested in 1997.

Noun

 * 1)  (unsolicited electronic messages)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  spam

Usage notes
As the word starts with two consonants, some Turkish people will have difficulties to spell it correctly. It may be spelled also .

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  spam