A dull or socially inept person, especially someone who is excessively studious.
〈英，非正式〉书呆子；迟钝的人；不善交际的人
surfing the Net is a popular late-night pastime for spods
Example sentencesExamples
It's likely that these TV spods aren't actually lefty liberals with a will to help the poor and needy.
Instead, he kept it close to him, his fingers ridged, and with a confused look spreading over his face the spod in the purple shirt tried to read around the grip of his fist to see what make and model it was.
He ends by saying that the programme ‘is no longer the domain solely of sci-fi spods, this is must-see TV for everyone.’
As I'm just having to reinstall millions of apps on a rebuilt machine, this episode rather appealed to the spod in me.
The programme's resident science spod turned out not to have been quite the star witness for the BBC that we had all been expecting.
Because I am a secret spod I had done some revision before taking the test.
Ever since four spods from Merseyside were met by crowds of screaming girls at JFK, conquering the States has always been the ultimate goal of any group from these shores.
You know you'll still get some whingeing spods complaining about it.
It gave the spod a warm, marshmallowy smile that puffed up his features like dough.
Not funny, unless you're a techie spod, I suppose.
Synonyms
bore, dull person
Derivatives
spoddy
adjectivespoddiest, spoddier
British informal
This is because it's mostly voted for by men who like lists, and voting, and spoddy men are traditionalists.
Example sentencesExamples
Awkward and spoddy, most are post-graduate students or in their first job in the City.
I got rather excited this morning in a spoddy kind of way when I received my first piece of mail where the postage was priced up entirely in euros.
Check out that link for a whole lot of spoddy NZ seismic info.
And this morning, despite claiming to have had spoddy dreams, of this conversation he had no memory whatsoever.