Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for a brand of fine china and earthenware.
- Josiah II,British potter whose company became famous for its development of bone china around 1800.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a brand of fine English porcelain
- noun English potter who started a pottery famous for its bone china (1754-1827)
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Examples
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* Roderick Spode is a comedy character in the Jeeves and Wooster novels by Wodehouse-an erswhile fascist who set up the “Blackshorts” to terrorise the local population on October 24, 2009 at 12: 22 pm Officer and a lady
‘Rent A Mob’ Attack Police At BBC TV Centre « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone.
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Bertie Wooster: The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone.
Matthew Yglesias » Stay Classy, Conservative Blogosphere 2007
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One of the most perfect of English porcelains, known as Spode, was produced by combining with this type of paste pulverized bones. "
The Story of Porcelain Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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While many large, famous tableware companies in England and the U.S. have faced major setbacks in the last few years—Lenox and Wedgwood are recovering from bankruptcy; Spode and Royal Worcester live on as mere brands within a larger company—studio-made pottery coming out of small shops across the States is flourishing.
Anything but Plain White Shax Riegler 2011
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Spode Trade Winds Blue Tankards Set of 2 Mint Condition dale earnhardt sr tankard (franklin mint)
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Four years later, having helped to drive two unionist leaders from power for being too ready to compromise with nationalists, Mr Craig and his Ulster Vanguard brought the politics of neo-nazism, though spiced with a touch of PG Wodehouse's Roderick Spode, back to Ireland, with Mr Craig inspecting lines of thousands of masked supporters and vowing to "liquidate the enemy".
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The Portmeirion Group bought the rights to Spode and Royal Worcester and has moved some Spode lines (including the 'Blue Italian') back from east Asia to Stoke.
Fire returns to the Potteries' heart Ian Jack 2010
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Spode Trade Winds Blue Tankards Set of 2 Mint Condition dale earnhardt sr tankard (franklin mint)
Telofy commented on the word Spode
“Last evening I attended a lovely cello recital in a private home in my neighborhood. Sitting in the parlor listening to Brahms on a 1768 Benjamin Banks, many of us deep in reverie (or snoozing—hard to tell), I was startled to see at the very moment of its toppling a teacup roll off its saucer from the lap of my abstracted neighbor Peggy. I tensed for the crash, but the cup hit the plush Oriental, somersaulted gently onto the wood floor, and miraculously righted itself without a sound. At a suitable moment, I retrieved it from under the settee and handed it back. Peggy inspected it for damage, caught her breath, and whispered ‘Spode!’ ”
—Dodging Editorial Bullets
June 2, 2010