Etymology

spambot

spam·bot
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Today it means: A bot that sends any type of spam content on the Internet, particularly originally mass junk email. Full definition →

English bot ← Czech robot ← Old Czech robota
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The story

  1. Englishspam
  2. Old Czechrobota
  3. Czechrobota
  4. Czechrobot
  5. Englishrobotclip.
  6. Englishbot
  7. English todayspambot

From spam + -bot.

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