spic

spic
/spik/, n. Slang (disparaging and offensive).
a Spanish-American person.
Also, spik, spick.
[1910-15; earlier also spig, short for spiggoty; claimed, perh. correctly, to derive from an accented pron. of (No) speak the (English)]

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