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  • adjective slang special

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Examples

  • I've knowed all your debts, 'spesh'ly that ye owe that sneakin' hound Parker; and thar isn't a time that I couldn't and wouldn't hev chipped in and paid 'em for ye -- for your father's sake -- ef

    Jeff Briggs's Love Story Bret Harte 1869

  • a showdown, and when a woman makes up her mind to do a thing, 'spesh'ly to git married, thar ain't no river or anything else can stop her.

    Shawn of Skarrow James Tandy Ellis 1905

  • The only posssible way to cope with this is that it too two weeks to lose 2kg, so in 18 weeks if I keep at it, I shall wone again be able to fit in to that spesh little black dress.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger Lite 12 March 2010

  • The locals thought a trip to Gatton was something pretty spesh!

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Ladies Lounge 2009

  • I went to a job just last week where an otherwise healthy “Wayne” (save for the forty fags/12 cans of spesh a day) called for a priority call (query: cardiac. said the call) l which of course garnered out best response, me in a car and a fully crewed wagon.

    Locally Elected Police Chiefs, Yeah? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Wild stuff is gamey as hell some like it that way, usually hairy men who live in bracken huts on hillsides but the farmed stuff is fairly spesh.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Calling all Texans… 2009

  • May 24, 2009 at 5:22 am ai r takin a beeeeeg crokpawt uv meetbawls an sawce an elebenty stenshun cordz , iz mai spec…spesh….mai fing peeps lyke an alwais axe meh tew breeng.

    fud pyramid - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Geekgrrls and fellow travelers have done sterling work here, but I want to call out some extra-spesh contributions from the dudes who turn up to Mansplain.

    this week in mansplanation 2009

  • LOVE. the hungry monster! spesh when he pretends to type on the pizza.

    THIS is How You Show Hungry Who's Boss Jen 2009

  • By HAVOCK, March 24, 2009 @ 12:13 pm yeah i did, spesh for Chaz, wonder how they went eating all that …SOFT STUFF

    Cheeseburger Gothic » The Festival of Chaz 2009

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