sporge

See also: spørge

English

Etymology

Back-formation from sporgery.

Verb

sporge (third-person singular simple present sporges, present participle sporging, simple past and past participle sporged)

1. (intransitive, transitive, computing) 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.
   • 1999 June 25, Fredric L. Rice, “WHAT IS THIS STRANGE LANGUAGE ?!”, in alt.religion.scientology‎^[1] (Usenet):

     On September 19'th of last year the crooks started sporging other news groups with neo-Nazi and White Supremist text farmed from other news groups.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɔr.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -ɔrdʒe
• Hyphenation: spòr‧ge

Verb

sporge

1. third-person singular present indicative of sporgere

Anagrams

• spergo

Middle English

Noun

sporge

1. Alternative form of spurge