spade
spade is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A hart or stag three years old. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A hart or stag three years old.
- noun. A castrated man or beast.
- noun. An implement for digging or cutting the ground, consisting usually of an oblong and nearly rectangular blade of iron, with a handle like that of a shovel.
- noun. One of that suit of cards each of which bears one or more figures resembling a spade.
- noun. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
- transitive verb. To dig with a spade; to pare off the sward of, as land, with a spade.
- noun. a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
- noun. a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
"she led a low spade"
"spades were trumps"
- noun. (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
"only a Black can call another Black a nigga"
- verb. dig (up) with a spade
"I spade compost into the flower beds"
Synonyms
coon, jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spade:
Common word forms
spaded, spader, spades, spading, spadeful
Words from these letters
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