English
sping
Blend of spam + ping.
Old English pyngan ‘to prick’
Middle English pingen ‘to push, shove, pierce, stab, prod, goad,…’
English ping
Today it means
noun The use of blogs' trackback functionality to generate link spam.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “sping”. 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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