Etymology

spaug

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Today it means: A foot. Full definition →

Irish spág
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The story

  1. Irish · borrowed fromspág“the paw, limb or claw of an animal”
  2. English todayspaug

From Irish spág (“the paw, limb or claw of an animal”), transferred to humans as pejorative or for club-foot.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.