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Date: 1400-1500
Language: Old French
Origin: espeer 'to cut with a sword', from espee 'sword', from Latin spatha; SPATULA

spay

 verb
     
Related topics: Birth
spay [transitive]
MB to remove part of the sex organs of a female animal so that it is not able to have babies [↪ neuter]
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