spawny

adj. lucky. Subjects: English, Scotland

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Citations: 1992 Jeremy Pitt Usenet: rec.sport.soccer (Feb. 7) “Re: Bring back the attraCtiveness in World Cup”: They qualified for the semis by kicking Maradona off the pitch (so when he retaliated he got sent off) and a spawny Rossi hatrick based on defensive errors by Brazil when Italy were getting pissed on. 1994 Irvine Welsh Trainspotting (July 11) p. 96 @ (May 1, 1996): —Two fuckin aces! —Spawny bastard! You spawny fuckin cunt Renton. 1997 Bill Lecki Scottish Daily Record (Jan. 3) “Mbes Aye, Mbes Naw” p. 74: After his lucky, flukey, jammy, spawny, poxy save against us at Wembley, those initials can only stand for one thing. 1997 Mark Hodkinson Times (London, England) (Apr. 21) “Bassett’s petrified Forest seem resigned to their fate” p. 30: Many defenders does not a great defence make, as Forest discovered when Bart-Williams sliced a ball against his own post. Deane gleefully poked it into the waiting net as it rebounded along the goalline. Dave Bassett, the Forest general manager, afterwards dubbed the goal “spawny” and the epithet was accurate. 2003 Charlotte Hindle Lonely Planet Gap Year Book (Sept. 1) p. 133: Only spawny gappers find any paid work in the region other than teaching English.

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