speccy kid
- noun
- /ˈspɛki kɪd/
- Offensive
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- At school, he was bullied for being the speccy kid in the front row.
Examples
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She didn't want to be known as the speccy kid, so she avoided wearing her glasses in class.
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The teacher asked the speccy kid to help set up the projector.
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Look at that speccy kid over there!
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The speccy kids in my class are really smart.
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He was often teased as the speccy kid because he wore glasses all the time.
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In the playground, she was known as the speccy kid who always read books.
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Everyone knew him as the speccy kid who sat at the front of the class.
Surface Forms
Morphology
speccy + kid
The compound is directly compositional: 'speccy' (an informal adjective from 'specs'/'spectacles' meaning wearing glasses) combined with 'kid' yields 'a child who wears glasses.' Although 'speccy' is colloquial and regionally marked, the constituent meaning leads straightforwardly to the overall sense, so a learner who knows both parts would understand it.
Etymology
Speccy kid comes from speccy, a short word based on 'specs' for glasses, and kid meaning child. The image of a child with glasses being pointed out helped the phrase come to mean 'a child who wears glasses' and it is often used to tease.
