Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sporge

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sporge
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

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.

Intransitive verb; Transitive verb

Example Sentences

Etymology

Back-formation from sporgery.

Usage

Inflected Forms

sporges (present, singular) sporging (participle, present) sporged (participle, past) sporged (past)

Questions

What does sporge mean?
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.
Where does sporge come from?
Back-formation from sporgery.

How to pronounce sporge

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