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Meaning of Spastic | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈspastɪk

Definitions

  1. A person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy.
  2. A stupid, clumsy person.

Equivalents

Examples

“‘Oi, Fleming, you spastic. Guess who I knobbed last night?’”
“Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint. Alan Partridge: Yep. Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother. Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic! You're a mentalist!”
“Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky): Show Link! This is nuts—she can't even dance. Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes): Plastic little spastic. Tracy Turnblad: Oh, Link, I can dance so much better than her. Penny Pingleton: Mhm! Tracy Turnblad: Why don't you notice me at school?”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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