sporge

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verb

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.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person sporges · participle present sporging · participle past sporged · past sporged

  1. intransitivetransitivecomputingTo 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.

    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.

    1999 June 25, Fredric L. Rice, “WHAT IS THIS STRANGE LANGUAGE ?!”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)

Origin

Back-formation from sporgery.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

“sporge.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sporge. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sporge,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sporge.

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