spavined.
Of a horse: having spavin (“a disease of horses caused by a bony swelling which develops in a leg due to inflammation”).
Meaning & usage
Of a horse: having spavin (“a disease of horses caused by a bony swelling which develops in a leg due to inflammation”).
Of a person: lame due to a leg disease.
Of a person or a thing: old, worn-out; also, obsolete.
I’m a spavined old warrior, and I don’t have much time left in this world, but I still have a few tricks to teach these whippersnappers.
Where this word comes from
From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).
simple past and past participle of spavin
Where this word comes from
From Late Middle English spaueyned, from spavein, spaveine (“swelling on horse’s leg causing lameness; disease causing lameness in horses”) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and the past tense and past participle forms of weak verbs). By surface analysis, spavin + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives from nouns, denoting having the objects represented by the nouns; and forming past tenses of regular verbs).
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