English
spawny
From spawn + -y.
Formed from spawn + -y
Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- ‘to spread out’
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Latin expandō ‘stretch out’
Old French espandre
Anglo-Norman espaundre
Middle English spawnen
English spawn
Today it means
adj In some way like or resembling spawn.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “spawny”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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